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Walden and Environmental Justice

Thoreau’s Religion is a book about Henry David Thoreau and environmental justice. But Stanley Cavell put the question well when he asked, in the preface to The Senses of Walden (Viking Press, 1972),...

Alda Balthrop-Lewis | 26 Jan 2021

The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain

While there are no timeless arguments in the history of political thought, there may indeed be perennial questions. If anything is recurrent throughout Western thought, it is likely to be the abhorrence...

Max Skjönsberg | 25 Jan 2021

Neoliberalism in the Guise of Humanism and Democracy

This book is part of a critical educational psychology commitment to engage in ideological, cultural, political, and philosophical discussions about the application of psychology in and outside of schools....

Stephen Vassallo | 25 Jan 2021

A Poem from Romanticism: Friedrich Schiller’s Nänia

Friedrich Schiller’s little poem is one of the greatest works of German Classicism, the revival of Greek thought and literary forms centered in the Weimar that Goethe and Schiller made famous, but its...

Michael Ferber | 22 Jan 2021

Disability as diversity

In the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has fully emerged, bringing a new vocabulary for understanding disability, that grew out of, and continues to grow with, the disability rights...

Essaka Joshua | 21 Jan 2021

The Economic Slump of Covid-19 in Historical Perspective

The world economy is experiencing, because of the Covid-crisis and the associated lockdowns, its worst slump in peacetime since the great depression of the 1930s. A look at the main economic dislocations...

Andrés Solimano | 19 Jan 2021

A chess game

Emili is an amateur chess player. Occasionally, he plays chess in international opens, which for diverse reasons are enticing for both local non-professional club players and professional players from...

Angel Blanch | 18 Jan 2021

Why I Edited Romanticism: 100 Poems

As an undergraduate in 1964 I took a seminar in the English Romantics (the six male poets then considered canonical) and was imprinted like a chick by the first poet we read, William Blake. ...

Michael Ferber | 15 Jan 2021

The Importance of Local Content Policies in Post-COVID-19 Recovery in Global Energy Markets

The year 2020 will long be remembered as a year in which global energy markets witnessed significant upheavals due to the effects of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Oil prices fell...

Damilola S. Olawuyi | 14 Jan 2021

Islam in a Zongo: Muslim Lifeworlds in Ghana

Islam has been present in Ghana at least since the 14th century and today, there are more than three million Muslims living in the country. My book, Islam in a Zongo, is an in-depth investigation into...

Benedikt Pontzen | 14 Jan 2021

Christianity Platonism: How one of the world’s most important religions was shaped by one of its most influential philosophies

Anyone wishing to understand the Christian tradition deeply must consider the central, formative role of Platonism. At various times Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological...

Alexander J. B. Hampton, John Peter Kenney | 13 Jan 2021

Bear attacks on humans: a global perspective

The media and scientific literature are increasingly reporting an escalation of large carnivore attacks on humans, mainly in the so-called developed countries, such as Europe and North America. Although...

Vincenzo Penteriani, Mario Melletti | 13 Jan 2021