September 3, 2013

Peter Rabins on Causality and Evolution

“That a construct described 150 years ago is still so central to scientific thinking on the matter is a tribute to Darwin’s genius and, more importantly, evidence of the power of the proposal that he made.”—Peter Rabins This week our...

September 3, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The European Masses, A Japanese Classic, and Sufi Bodies

Our weekly list of new books: Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism Stefan Jonsson The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature Michael Emmerich Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval...

August 30, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. Wednesday, August 28th,...

August 30, 2013

An Interview with Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen

As we continue our week-long feature of The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen, we look to the authors’ interview with Zoe Romano at Digicult as they discuss the ideas of productive publics,...

August 29, 2013

Marc Lynch and Erica Chenoweth on U.S. Military Intervention in Syria

“But Obama has actually learned the real lessons of Iraq, the risks and costs, to America and to the world, of poorly conceived interventions abroad that never go quite as promised.”—Marc Lynch on possible U.S. military intervention in Syria As...

August 29, 2013

Adam Arvidsson: Can Capitalism Evolve? (Part 2)

This week our featured book is The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen. Today, we have the second half of an essay by Adam Arvidsson: “Ethical Economy: Can Capitalism Evolve?” In his essay,...

August 28, 2013

Adam Arvidsson: Can Capitalism Evolve? (Part 1)

This week our featured book is The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen. Today, we have the first half of an essay by Adam Arvidsson: “Ethical Economy: Can Capitalism Evolve?” In his essay,...

August 28, 2013

Atlas by Dung Kai-cheung wins Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award

“It is the task of literature to make visible the invisible.”—Dung Kai-cheung We don’t publish a lot of science fiction, so we hope you will indulge us in our excitement in announcing the news of Atlas: The Archaeology of an...

August 27, 2013

Excerpt: Preface from The Ethical Economy

Read the preface from The Ethical Economy, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen.

August 27, 2013

New Book Tuesday!: Negri on Spinoza and More New Titles

Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity Antonio Negri Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism Tyler Roberts Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders Kyle D. Killian The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies Michael Goddard Hitchcock Annual:...

August 26, 2013

The Art of Being Erich Fromm – A Review from The New York Review of Books

A review of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet, by Lawrence J. Friedman, was published in the Summer Issue of The New York Review of Books. A link to the review is available by clicking here (you need a...

August 23, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. Remains of Fort...