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 Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Between Two Millstones: Interview with Daniel J. Mahoney
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…
Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Milestones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
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…
The Poland of Asia: Korea and the March 1st Movement
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
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
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
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
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
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…