Monthly Archives: March 2025

Julia Rose Kraut, Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States – Harvard University Press, March 2023 Beginning with the Alien Friends Act of 1798, the United States has passed laws in the name … Continue reading →

Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion, trans. Andrew James Bliss – Verso, May 2025 An original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age — the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition … Continue reading →

John Berger, reissues from Verso Bento’s Sketchbook A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his … Continue reading →

Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life – Princeton University Press, February 2025 Update October 2025: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sophia Rosenfeld on the In Theory podcast on the Journal of History of Ideas … Continue reading →

Living in a New Sattelzeit: An Interview with Enzo Traverso – Journal of the History of Ideas blog Enzo Traverso, a leading scholar of modern European history and thought, is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at … Continue reading →

Theodor W. Adorno, Lectures 1949-1968, trans. Nicholas Walker – Polity, two volumes, February 2025 Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature and the Arts When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed … Continue reading →