Academic and literary books, reviewed by experts
Review of City Living: How Urban Dwellers and Urban Spaces Make One Another by Quill R Kukla JAG WILLIAMS In their book City Living, philosopher and geographer Quill Kukla brings together a robust interdisciplinary analysis and a deep appreciation of
Review of Anecdotes of the Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth ROSE HILTON In Anecdotes of Enlightenment, James Robert Wood positions the anecdote as central to Enlightenment explorations of human nature in the various forms and fields of philosophy,
Review of Evolutionary Causation edited by Tobias Uller and Kevin N. Laland JAG WILLIAMS Evolutionary Causation, edited by evolutionary biologists Tobias Uller and Kevin Laland, is the most recent contribution within the “Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology”. This series “intends
Review of The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age by Scott Soames JUSTIN SKIRRY Scott Soames’s book, The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age, provides an extended response to concerns raised in a New
Review of What’s The Use? The Uses of Use by Sara Ahmed SOHEL SARKAR The question, “what’s the use?” is the engine that drives Sara Ahmed’s queer feminist critique of use and usefulness in her latest book, What’s the Use?