New Books in Critical Theory
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The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest
Jun 25, 202649 min
Charles J. Stivale, "Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970–1987: Summaries and Commentary" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Jun 25, 20261h 43m
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 24, 20261h 7m
Hilary R. Buxton, "Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jun 24, 20261h 13m
Jean-Philippe Deranty, "The Case for Work" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 22, 202635 min
Robin Dembroff, "Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 22, 2026
Steven Segal, "Mandela’s Leadership Legacy: Emotional and Existential Wisdom" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 19, 202658 min
Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)
Jun 18, 202643 min
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober
Jun 17, 2026
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 14, 202654 min
Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 20261h 16m
Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 20261h 14m
Jeffrey R. Di Leo et al. eds., "Theory as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jun 12, 202632 min
Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)
Jun 11, 202646 min
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
Jun 10, 202658 min
Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Jun 10, 202651 min
Joanna Stalnaker, "The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death" (Yale UP, 2025)
Jun 9, 20261h 8m
Javier Arbona-Homar, "Explosivity: Following What Remains" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Jun 8, 20261h 6m
Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Jun 7, 202644 min
Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jun 6, 20261h 11m
Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jun 5, 202639 min
Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 3, 202652 min
Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 2, 20261h 34m
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)
Jun 2, 2026
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 2, 202640 min
On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship
Jun 2, 20261h 11m
Gloria Sibson Ayob, "The Concept of Emotional Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 2, 202659 min
Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, "Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age" (Bristol UP, 2026)
May 31, 202640 min
Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)
May 30, 20261h 12m
Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)
May 28, 20261h 6m
Laura Tisdall, "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" (Yale UP, 2026)
May 27, 202636 min
Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
May 26, 20261h 12m
Andrea Zarafshon Moore, "Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory" (Fordham UP, 2025)
May 26, 20261h 9m
Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)
May 25, 20262 min
Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, "The Heartland of US Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest" (Temple UP, 2026)
May 23, 20261h 3m
Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 21, 20261h 4m
Shyam Ranganathan, "Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
May 21, 202653 min
Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)
May 21, 20261h 20m
Brett Neilson, "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024)
May 20, 202656 min
Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)
May 20, 20261h 32m
Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
May 18, 20261h 29m
Drew M. Dalton, "The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
May 17, 20261h 12m
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)
May 12, 202643 min
Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 8, 202638 min
Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)
May 6, 202641 min
Alana Lentin, "The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy" (Pluto Books, 2025)
May 4, 20261h 21m
James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 4, 202654 min
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
May 3, 20261h 17m
Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
May 2, 2026
D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 2, 20261h 10m