The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers
The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers. Alison Gerber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. In The Work of Art, Gerber shows how the “occupation turn”…
The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers. Alison Gerber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. In The Work of Art, Gerber shows how the “occupation turn”…
The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics. William Desmond. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. One tradition in western philosophy is…
Reputation: What it is and Why it Matters. Gloria Origgi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Reputation explains why reputation is both personally and socially important; how…
Productive Imagination. Saulius Geniusas and Dmitri Nikulin, eds. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. How do we imagine ourselves and to what extent do we use…
The Temporality of Political Obligation. Justin C. Mueller. New York: Routledge, 2016. Theorists of political obligation are concerned with the reasons and under what conditions should…
The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics. Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. This volume examines the…
Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. D.C. Schindler. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018. Love and the Postmodern Predicament aims…
The following is an interview with Daniel J. Mahoney, the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College, about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Millstones: Book 1: Sketches…
Between Two Milestones. Book I. Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. “Away from home in a country far…
Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the March 1st Movement, which sparked the Korean resistance to Japanese colonial rule (1910-45) and now is celebrated in South…
Seoul: Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave. Ross King. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018. Seoul: Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave examines the history of…
China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination. Ji-Young Lee. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. In spite of its status as the sole great…
Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance Without Liberalism. Jeremy Menchik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Islam and Democracy explains Indonesian Islamic organizations’ vision for tolerance without…
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works. Kurt A. Raaflaub, ed. and trans. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017. As part of The Landmark Series, The Landmark…
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives. Plutarch. Translated by Pamela Mensch with Preface and Notes by James Romm and Introduction by Mary Beard. New York: W.…