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Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy

Most critics agree that Euripidean tragedy addresses a wealth of political questions, and that it su...

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What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern

When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path...

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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection

An authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and nov...

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Deep Time: A Literary History

In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of “deep time”—most often ass...

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The Written World and the Unwritten World

'An indispensable writer ... Calvino, possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of hum...

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Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the pos...

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Images of the Present Time

Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and n...

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Free Will: An Opinionated Guide

This opinionated guide to free will offers a clear and straightfoward introduction to a vexing topic...

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Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell

A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturali...

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Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

“Makes the case that the gimmick…is of tremendous critical value…Lies somewhere between critical the...

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Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser il...

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The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe

In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unea...

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Demetrius: Sacker of Cities

A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to suc...

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World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first fr...

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God: An Anatomy

Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2022A The Time...

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