New Books in Critical Theory
Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-05 02:21
- last episode published
- 2025-01-02 09:00
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- 3.13 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 1876
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-02 | On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Robcis grapples with the historical,... |
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| 2025-01-02 |
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023) In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, an... |
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| 2025-01-01 | In this episode, S. Sayyid talks with Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University) on the Antimonies of Afropessimism. Professor Barnor Hesse teaches in the department of African American Studies, at Northwestern University, he is the author of Raceocracy: W... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018) The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies on Hysteria, the good doctor from Vienna continues to stir controversy in institutions, academic circ... |
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| 2024-12-30 | Loneliness is what results when a person is cut off from the living world. Ecological loneliness, in particular, is reciprocal - what we mete out always comes back to trouble us. However, as Laura Marris demonstrates, loneliness can entail the shadow w... |
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| 2024-12-29 | Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At... |
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| 2024-12-27 |
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024) After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks and invent their own entertainment. Playgrounds: The Expe... |
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| 2024-12-26 |
Rebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) How do ordinary people write the stories of their lives? In A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), Rebecca Ball, a lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University, presents the microhistory of a series of... |
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| 2024-12-26 | A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commercially produced birds. In this brief book, bestselling author Peter Singer tells their story—and, unfort... |
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| 2024-12-25 |
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022) In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford UP, 2024). Larry S. Temkin, one of the worl... |
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