Book interviews tagged Philosophy
The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables
- ISBN: 978 1 59451 412 8 (hc)
- featured in: Political freedom must include freedom from politics and freedom to take part in politicsDecember 5, 2008
Loneliness as a Way of Life
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03113 5
- featured in: How we are possessed by our possessions, how we love, how we grieveDecember 16, 2008
The Civil Contract of Photography
- ISBN: 978 1 890951 88 7
- featured in: The photograph as an unintentional effect of an encounter between photographer, photographed subject, camera, and spectatorJanuary 23, 2009
The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up
- ISBN: 978 0 300 11046 3
- featured in: A “history” of education from 2010 to 2060January 27, 2009
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
- ISBN: 978 0 374 22998 6
- featured in: A glimpse into the intellectual life of early modern EuropeJanuary 30, 2009
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- ISBN: 978 0 262 53306 5 pb
- featured in: Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enoughMarch 17, 2009
What is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 801890185
- featured in: On the central role mathematical notions have played in the history of ideasMarch 24, 2009
Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
- ISBN: 978 0 231 14234 2
- featured in: Animals merit moral status comparable to that of human beingsMay 20, 2009
The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics
- ISBN: 978 0 521 73515 5 pb
- featured in: All good citizens of intellectual persuasion should be interested in the philosophical basis of economic thinkingMay 22, 2009
The Death of the American Trial
- ISBN: 978 0226081267
- featured in: An appeal to all Americans
June 1, 2009
Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13725 4
- featured in: The path to justice is lighted by the glow of civil passionsJune 19, 2009
Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
- ISBN: 978 0520257405
- featured in: Music as an art links leisure and personal enjoyment with the social goodJuly 2, 2009
The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth
- ISBN: 978 0691138985
- featured in: Evolution is ecology on a longer time scaleJuly 17, 2009
On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13534 2
- featured in: We need better partisanship — not Independence or bipartisanship or post-partisanshipJuly 31, 2009
The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality
- ISBN: 978 0674032712
- featured in: Citizenship as a special kind of property inheritanceAugust 28, 2009
The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
- ISBN: 978 0521518420 hb
- featured in: On the state of scholarship in the American academy, and on the state of humanitySeptember 18, 2009
Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe
- ISBN: 978 0521547840
- featured in: Security is a core component of democratic practiceSeptember 25, 2009
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009
Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
- ISBN: 978 0231147804
- featured in: Abstract ideas, concrete experiences, and life dilemmas in the form of a philosophical memoirOctober 30, 2009
The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03584 3
- featured in: The globalization cycle will start again, but it will not start up immediatelyNovember 9, 2009
Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production
- ISBN: 978 1594515972 pb
- featured in: About wandering as a way of organizing the experience of the worldNovember 11, 2009
Theology of Money
- ISBN: 978-0822344506 pb
- featured in: Economic life is constrained by the perpetual need for acquiring moneyNovember 30, 2009
On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State
- ISBN: 978 0231147224
- featured in: Exposing the biased and gendered foundations of the modern political stateDecember 7, 2009
History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche
- ISBN: 978 0415995191
- featured in: How truly wild, bizarre, and contradictory the attitudes towards Islam were—and sometimes areDecember 21, 2009
The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)baroque Aesthetics
- ISBN: 978 0804769549
- featured in: Aesthetic experiences have a persistent potential to shape our thoughts, political endeavors, and sense of selfDecember 28, 2009
The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology
- ISBN: 978 0804759540 pb
- featured in: The human self is a “natural artifact”January 11, 2010
Animal Lessons: How they teach us to be human
- ISBN: 978 0231147279 pb
- featured in: Oppression, slavery, and torture are historically inseparable from the question of the animalJanuary 20, 2010
Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
- ISBN: 978 0231139519 pb
- featured in: Is the ability to do calculus morally better than the ability to fly with your wings?February 1, 2010
Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic
- ISBN: 978 0816665105
- featured in: Placing affective cognition in a political contextFebruary 17, 2010
Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations
- ISBN: 978 0691132907
- featured in: Spelling out the counterfactual method improves policy analysisApril 7, 2010
Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy
- ISBN: 978 0262134903
- featured in: Attempting to develop a theory of the incipiency of movementApril 14, 2010
The Ecological Thought
- ISBN: 978 0674049208
- featured in: To survive, we must do things based not on concepts of selfApril 30, 2010
Morality's Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America
- ISBN: 978 0812242270
- featured in: Might too much empathy lead to disasters just as too little empathy does?May 3, 2010
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
- ISBN: 978 0822344421
- featured in: To understand modernity, you need to understand speedMay 24, 2010
Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan, & The Communist Manifesto
- ISBN: 978 0691144764
- featured in: Provocative questioning with underlying seriousness of purposeJune 21, 2010
