Monthly Archives: March 2011

Rebecca Messbarger 248 pages | 50 color plates, 20 halftones | 7 x 10 | © 2010 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-74), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed … Continue reading →

Edited by David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub 408 pages | 22 halftones, 1 DVD | 6 x 9 | © 2010 Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, “gay pride” has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement … Continue reading →

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation—exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world—have provoked … Continue reading →

Dan Edelstein 184 pages | 1 table | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | © 2010 What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does … Continue reading →

“Prague Palimpsest is one of the most intriguing and exciting books written about this ancient cosmopolitan city. Based on prodigious research, Thomas offers a complex close reading of the main figures and topics of Prague’s cultural and literary history. He … Continue reading →

Wendy Kline 200 pages | 10 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2010 Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In Bodies of … Continue reading →

Barack Obama has called him “one of my favorite philosophers.” John McCain wrote that he is “a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war.” Andrew Sullivan has said, “We need Niebuhr now more than ever.” For a … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/03/AR2011030304239.html   The rhetorical frame of The Good Doctor’s (TGD) latest essay is unsurprisingly self congratulatory: could this be just another example of the self-obsession, even the blatant narcissism, of the Neo-Conservative thinker, in situ? Or might we just settle … Continue reading →

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/un-american-revolutions.html Pretty Boy Reactionary (PBR) sounds a solemn warning to Americans to give up their self-destructive romantic attachment to Revolution and Revolutionaries as nihilistic, even puerile: for Revolutionary fervor can lead to disastrous consequences: internecine war and the mass murder … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/opinion/04brooks.html If one really makes an effort to discover first rate critiques of the neo-imperialism of Mr. Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’, the wise reader might opt for such thinkers as Edward Said and his devastating ‘Clash of Definitions’ … Continue reading →