Heidegger Made Kosher Heidegger Made Kosher
Two new books explore the work of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Richard Wolin
In Her Mind’s Eye In Her Mind’s Eye
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Rée
Easier Said Than Done Easier Said Than Done
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all differences.
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / John Gray
Harry Magdoff Harry Magdoff
The late socialist economist Harry Magdoff read Marx at fifteen and never looked back. A self-educated co-editor of the Monthly Review, he not only fought for a just and humane wor...
Jan 5, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Marxism and Form Marxism and Form
Perry Anderson's Spectrum journeys through the abstract worlds of conservative and liberal intellectual thought, and leaves in its trail insights on the substance and style of idea...
Nov 22, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stefan Collini
Profane Illuminations Profane Illuminations
New biographies of Rousseau and Voltaire help us appreciate how very fragile the eighteenth century's great movement of ideas was, and how remarkable it is that the Enlightenment n...
Nov 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
The Philosophy of Art The Philosophy of Art
Arthur Danto talks about art in America, the rise of pluralism and how The Nation changed his life.
Aug 18, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Degen
The Treason of the Clerics The Treason of the Clerics
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution details the story of Foucault's induction into journalism as a political correspondent in Iran.
Jul 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Rée
Hail Mary Hail Mary
A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.
May 26, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
On Sartre’s God Problem On Sartre’s God Problem
Reflections on the centenary of the birth of Jean-Paul Sarte.
May 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Norman Mailer