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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (Cato Institute) Beyond positivism, behaviorism, and neoinstitutionalism in economics A  penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics. In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a re-focusing on the liberated human. T...

Elijah Anderson Black in White Space The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life Elijah Anderson From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson,  Black in White Space  sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions in ordin...

Tommie Shelby (Harvard)  The idea of prison abolition An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are extremely harsh. Mass incarceration and i...

Lewis R. Gordon (UConn)  Fear of black consciousness Lewis R. Gordon's  Fear of Black Consciousness  is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the p...

Martha C. Nussbaum (U Chicago)  Justice for animals: Our collective responsibility A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals...

Karin de Boer (University of Leuven, Belgium) Kant's reform of metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason reconsidered S cholarly debates on the Critique of Pure Reason have largely been shaped by epistemological questions. Challenging this prevailing trend, Kant's Reform of Metaphysics is the first book-length study to interpret Kant's Critique in view of his efforts to turn Christian Wolff's highl...

Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research) Cannibal capitalism: How our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet and what we can do about it A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized po...

Barry A. Farber (Columbia, Teacher's College), Jessica Suzuki (private practice, NYC), and Daisy Ort (Columbia, Teacher's College) Understanding and enhancing positive regard in psychotherapy: Carl Rogers and beyond The therapeutic relationship, more than any particular technique or intervention, is the key to therapeutic success. Positive regard is a crucial component of that relationship. This b...

Paula Gottlieb (Wisconsin)  Aristotle's ethics: Nichomachean and Eudemian themes An examination of the philosophical themes presented in Aristotle's Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics. Topics include happiness, the voluntary and choice, the doctrine of the mean, particular virtues of character and temperamental means, virtues of thought, akrasia, pleasure, friendship, and luck. Special attention has...

Graham Harman (Southern California Institute of Architecture)  Architecture and objects Architecture and Objects thinks through object-oriented ontology ("Triple-O")—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function. By the founder of Triple-O, it deepens the exchange between architecture and philosophy, providing a...

Stephen A. Marglin (Harvard)  Raising Keynes: A twenty-first-century general theory Back to the future: a heterodox economist rewrites Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money to serve as the basis for a macroeconomics for the twenty-first century. John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money was the most influential economic idea of the twentieth centu...

Claudia Melica ( Sapienza Università di Roma )  The Owl's flight: Hegel's legacy to contemporary philosophy co-editors: Stefania Achella (Chieti-Pescara), Francesca Iannelli (Roma Tre), Gabriella Baptist (Cagliari), Serena Feloj (Pavia), and Fiorinda Li Vigni (Italian Institute for Philosophic Studies)   https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110709278 This book presents a unique rethinking of G. W. F. Hegel...

Nicole Iturriaga Exhuming violent histories: Forensics, memory, and rewriting Spain's past Many years after the fall of Franco's regime, Spanish human rights activists have turned to new methods to keep the memory of state terror alive. By excavating mass graves, exhuming remains, and employing forensic analysis and DNA testing, they seek to provide direct evidence of repression and break through...

Sheryl Luna (poet) Magnificent errors Magnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope. In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with  Pity the Drowned Horses , which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and around El Paso, Texas. Now with the poems in  Mag...

Terry Pinkard (Georgetown) Practice, power and forms of life: Sartre's appropriation of Hegel and Marx Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre's later work, illuminating a pivotal stance in Sartre's understanding of freedom and communal action. Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason , released to great fanfare in 1960, has since then receded in philosophical visibility. As Sartre's re...

Anne E. Parsons From asylum to prison: Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945 To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutio...

David Charles (Yale)  The undivided self: Aristotle and the 'mind-body' problem  Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The aim of this book is to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical scrutiny. Aristotle...

Brad Reedy (Evoke Therapy Programs) The audacity to be you: learning to love your horrible, rotten self Expanding on his first book ( The journey of the heroic parent)  Reedy discusses how all our relationships are connected to the relationship we have with ourselves. He shows how the foundation for intimacy with partners, our ability to parent effectively, and the meaningfulness of our lives can...

Andrea Righi (Miami University) The other side of the digital: The sacrificial economy of new media A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity Andrea Righi deconstructs contradictions inherent in our digital world, examining how ideas of  knowledge, desire, writing, temporality, and the woman are being reconfigured by our sacrificial economy.  The Other Side of t...

Richard Frankel Victor J. Krebs  Human virtuality and digital life: Philosophical and psychoanalytic investigations   This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of the world and our understanding of ourselves. Drawing on examples from everyday life, myth, and popular culture, this book argues that virtual reality is only the latest...

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México [ITAM]) The belief in intuition: Individuality and authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler Within the Western tradition, it was the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler who laid out and explored the nonrational power of "intuition" at work in human beings that plays a key role in orienting their thinking and action within...

Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) Freedom, resentment and the metaphysics of morals  An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment." P. F.  Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting responses across multiple disc...

Owen Flanagan How to do things with emotions: The morality of anger and shame across cultures An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shame. The world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same time, we w...

Alice Jardine At the risk of thinking: An Intellectual biography of Julia Kristeva At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva's work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva's personal journey, from her childhood in Communist Bulgaria to her adult life as an international public intell...

Mark Epstein M.D. (private practice, NYC) The zen of therapy: Uncovering a hidden kindness in life "A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and sympathetic book's lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories."—Oliver Burkeman, New York Times Book Review A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship,...