Monthly Archives: February 2025

Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher. Thanks to dmf for the link. How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And … Continue reading →

Ruth Leys, Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research – University of Chicago Press, December 2024 A history of “priming” research that analyzes the field’s underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a … Continue reading →

Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination – Edinburgh University Press, July 2025 I’ll be part of a discussion of the book with Chris Philo and Felicitas Kübler, London Group of Historical Geographers, online 27 May 2025, 5pm. More … Continue reading →

Gary D. Jaworski, Erving Goffman and the Cold War – Lexington Books, August 2023 New Books discussion with Matt Dawson. Thanks to dmf for the link. Erving Goffman and the Cold War presents a provocative new reading of the work of … Continue reading →

Michael Rembis, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum – Oxford University Press, 2025 The asylum–at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse–touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a … Continue reading →

John M. Efron, All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat – Stanford University Press, April 2025 In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set … Continue reading →