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New Books in Critical Theory

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Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)

62 hours 2 mins; March 30, 2026

Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

58 mins; March 30, 2026

Pre-Reading

20 mins; March 30, 2026

Emmanuel Ofuasia, "Ìwà: the Process-Relational Dimension to African Metaphysics" (Springer, 2024)

91 hours 31 mins; March 29, 2026

Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)

65 hours 5 mins; March 28, 2026

The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America

54 mins; March 26, 2026

Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

26 mins; March 24, 2026

David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

76 hours 34 mins; March 23, 2026

Prolepsis

16 mins; March 23, 2026

Philip C. Almond, "Noah and the Flood in Western Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 21, 2026

Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)

70 hours 16 mins; March 21, 2026

Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)

70 hours 10 mins; March 20, 2026

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

73 hours 39 mins; March 20, 2026

Miriam Ticktin, "Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

63 hours 58 mins; March 19, 2026

H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)

58 mins; March 17, 2026

Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)

53 mins; March 15, 2026

Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)

51 mins; March 15, 2026

Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

74 hours 49 mins; March 14, 2026

Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

44 mins; March 14, 2026

Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

41 mins; March 12, 2026

What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life

50 mins; March 12, 2026

Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 11, 2026

Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)

69 hours 27 mins; March 10, 2026

Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

48 mins; March 10, 2026

Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

42 mins; March 07, 2026

The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right

56 mins; March 07, 2026

Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)

69 hours 54 mins; March 06, 2026

Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)

57 mins; March 05, 2026

David L. Eng, "Reparations and the Human" (Duke UP, 2025)

54 mins; March 04, 2026

Ailbhe Kenny, "Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music" (Oxford UP, Press 2025)

38 mins; March 03, 2026

Catherine Elgin, "Epistemic Ecology" (MIT Press, 2025)

60 hours 22 mins; March 03, 2026

Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)

35 mins; March 01, 2026

Hanna Pickard, "What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing But Cocaine?: A Philosophy of Addiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)

48 mins; February 24, 2026

Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time: An Annotated Translation" (Yale UP, 2026)

85 hours 49 mins; February 23, 2026

Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025)

61 hours 6 mins; February 21, 2026

Jie-Hyun Lim, "Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age" (Columbia UP, 2025)

54 mins; February 21, 2026

Jessica Martin, "Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

36 mins; February 21, 2026

Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)

63 hours 10 mins; February 20, 2026

Denys Gorbach, "The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

69 hours 31 mins; February 19, 2026

John Drabinski, "So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

59 mins; February 18, 2026

Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)

62 hours 15 mins; February 16, 2026

Agustín Santella and Adrián Piva, "Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

34 mins; February 16, 2026

Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy

61 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2026

Sourit Bhattacharya, "Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising" (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)

58 mins; February 13, 2026

Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)

43 mins; February 12, 2026

Olivier Esteves et al., "France, You Love It but Leave It: The Silent Flight of French Muslims" (Polity, 2025)

57 mins; February 06, 2026

Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

77 hours 43 mins; February 05, 2026

Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, "Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)

67 hours 4 mins; February 05, 2026

Samuel Holley-Kline, "In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)

45 mins; February 04, 2026

Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)

85 hours 24 mins; February 04, 2026

Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage" (Princeton UP, 2025)

79 hours 36 mins; February 03, 2026

Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

77 hours 31 mins; February 03, 2026

Gina Schouten, "The Anatomy of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

61 hours 48 mins; February 01, 2026

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

45 mins; January 31, 2026

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

44 mins; January 29, 2026

Justin L. Mann, "Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation" (Duke UP, 2026)

105 hours 56 mins; January 29, 2026

Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)

50 mins; January 28, 2026

Duy Lap Nguyen, "Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

38 mins; January 27, 2026

Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

32 mins; January 24, 2026

Daisy Fancourt, "Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives" (Cornerstone Press, 2026)

27 mins; January 23, 2026

Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

57 mins; January 22, 2026

Robert Dorschel, "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism" (MIT Press, 2025)

40 mins; January 20, 2026

Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)

44 mins; January 18, 2026

Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

73 hours 4 mins; January 18, 2026

Daniel Wyche, "The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2025)

76 hours 52 mins; January 17, 2026

Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

62 hours 9 mins; January 17, 2026

Helen Graham, "Deconstituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work" (UCL Press, 2024)

45 mins; January 16, 2026

Di Wu et. al, eds., "China As Context: Anthropology, Post-globalisation and the Neglect of China" (Manchester UP, 2025)

79 hours 15 mins; January 16, 2026

Angie Hobbs, "Why Plato Matters Now" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

78 hours 32 mins; January 14, 2026

Kerry Gottlich, "From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

74 hours 53 mins; January 14, 2026

Mercedes Valmisa, "All Things Act" (Oxford UP, 2025)

56 mins; January 13, 2026

Dagmar Herzog, "The New Fascist Body" (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025)

64 hours 34 mins; January 13, 2026

J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

57 mins; January 10, 2026

Caitlin Vincent, "Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)

40 mins; January 09, 2026

Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)

51 mins; January 08, 2026

Thomas Albert Howard, "Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)

45 mins; January 07, 2026

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism with Thea Riofrancos

73 hours 52 mins; January 06, 2026

Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)

69 hours 36 mins; January 05, 2026

Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

53 mins; January 04, 2026

Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)

36 mins; January 04, 2026

Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta, "Policing and Violence in India: Colonial Origins and Contemporary Realities" (Speaking Tiger, 2025)

46 mins; January 03, 2026

Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

113 hours 11 mins; January 02, 2026

Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Oxford UP, 2023)

48 mins; January 01, 2026

Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)

53 mins; December 31, 2025

Russell T. McCutcheon, "Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion" (Routledge, 2023)

48 mins; December 29, 2025

Henrike Kohpeiß, "Bourgeois Coldness" (Divided Publishing, 2025)

50 mins; December 27, 2025

Daniel M. Herskowitz, "The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

70 hours 8 mins; December 27, 2025

Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, "Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life" (Reaktion, 2023)

37 mins; December 26, 2025

Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)

65 hours 4 mins; December 24, 2025

Beenash Jafri, "Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

68 hours 48 mins; December 23, 2025

Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi, "Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production" (CEU Press, 2025)

59 mins; December 17, 2025

Graham Harman, "Waves and Stones: The Continuous and the Discontinuous in Human Thought" (Allen Lane, 2025)

67 hours 58 mins; December 15, 2025

Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín eds., "Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2025

46 mins; December 13, 2025

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts" (Yale UP, 2025)

59 mins; December 12, 2025

Rachel Jean-Baptiste, "Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; December 11, 2025

Michael Staunton, "Thomas Becket and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

71 hours 37 mins; December 10, 2025

Dan Edelstein, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (Princeton UP, 2025)

60 hours 23 mins; December 10, 2025

Chad Augustine Córdova, "Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)

55 mins; December 06, 2025

Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)

37 mins; December 06, 2025

Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

47 mins; December 03, 2025

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