August 6, 2020

Taking the Risk to Translate as Our Intelligence Morphs

By Carolyn Shread

“Malabou, with her characteristic clarity and insight, radically redraws the lines between humans and machines, brains and computers. Morphing Intelligence is a major achievement and not to be missed.” ~Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and...

August 5, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Farming as Financial Asset, Market/Place, and Bounded Rationality

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the Economic Transformations series Farming as Financial Asset Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes Stefan Ouma In a world with a growing population that needs to...

August 4, 2020

The Other Corona Crisis: The Anger It’s Going to Unleash Once It’s Over

By Mark Blyth

“With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humour, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To...

August 4, 2020

Online Teaching and Collective Intelligence: The Poison or the Cure?

By Catherine Malabou

“In this remarkable book, Catherine Malabou focuses on the transformations of ‘intelligence’ as it moves from genetics to epigenetics to automatism. Historically grounded, philosophically astute, and engagingly written, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in intelligence—artificial and natural—and...

August 4, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Oath Keepers, On the Judgment of History, and Modern Sufis and the State

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Oath Keepers Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group Sam Jackson In Oath Keepers, Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group...

August 1, 2020

Women in Translation Month 2020! A Celebration of Philosophy and Literature

Welcome to Women in Translation Month 2020! WITMonth was launched six years ago when blogger and scholar Meytal Tadzinkski noticed that works by women authors made up less than 30% of the books translated into English. Since then, WITMonth has...

July 30, 2020

Book Excerpt! Rethinking Readiness (introduction)

“Covering a wide range of natural hazards and man made threats, Schlegelmilch’s book pushes us to think through the question that we ask all too often: are we truly prepared?” Daniel P. Aldrich, author of Black Wave and Building Resilience...

July 29, 2020

Book Excerpt! Degenerative Realism (introduction)

“One of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy,...

July 29, 2020

Why It Takes More Than Stockpiling Supplies and First Responder Training to Prepare for Megadisasters

Jeff Schlegelmilch

“This timely book both looks ahead to the mega-disasters on the horizon—disasters that tank economies, shred infrastructure, and take lives—and outlines how communities can start preparing now. It is an essential guide for policy makers and concerned citizens alike who...

July 29, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Let Them Haunt Us and Modern Chinese History, 2nd ed.

Our weekly list of new books is now available! transcript publishing From the Image series Let Them Haunt Us How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable Anna-Lena Werner Let Them Haunt Us analyzes contemporary aesthetics engaged in trauma and critically...

July 28, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Sachiko

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Weatherhead Books on Asia series Sachiko A Novel Endō Shūsaku. Translated by Van C. Gessel In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different...

July 28, 2020

Q&A: Christy Wampole on Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France

“One of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy...