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"Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger" by Waller R. Newell explores the concept of freedom and revolution in the political philosophy of German thinkers from Rousseau to Heidegger. The book examines how these philosophers viewed freedom and revolution as interconnected, with revolution often seen as a means to restore or simulate the lost freedom of humanity. The author also discusses the influence of classical Greek political thought on these philosophers and their critiques of modernity. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the philosophical tradition and its implications for understanding freedom and revolution. [Extracted from the article]

"The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" by Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner is a book that examines the state of higher education in the United States. The authors conducted 2,000 interviews over five years at ten colleges to gain insight into current expectations and experiences of higher education. The book explores different justifications for engaging in higher education, such as inertia, transaction, exploration, and transformation. While the book defends traditional humanist scholarship, it could have made a stronger case for the liberal arts. However, it lacks awareness of sociological problems associated with the university and does not consider the broader issues affecting higher education. Overall, the book provides a harmless addition to the library of defenses of liberal education. [Extracted from the article]

"The Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society" by Daniel Cohen explores the changes in technology and their impact on society. Cohen examines the shifts in the 1960s as an example of how liberalizing ideas can lead to backlash, using various viewpoints including Marxist and Freudian perspectives. The book highlights moments in history that indicate impending change, such as films and philosophers of the time. Cohen also discusses demographic and economic changes that underlie the transformations of the 1960s and raises concerns about potential future backlash to progress. The book prompts readers to consider the challenges and possibilities of the future based on past patterns. [Extracted from the article]

In sum, this book is very multifaceted, it covers a lot of ground, it has Eigen's direct response to dozens of critical questions. Only in his late work has Eigen had much to say about a general theory germane to psychoanalysis ( I Image, Sense, Infinities and Everyday Life i ) or more aphoristically and fragmentedly ( I Under the Totem: In Search of a Path i ). Here is some classic Eigen, typical of the flavour of the whole book, from the essay "Psyche Singing", that is picked up in the book's title. Dialogues with Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing: edited by Loray Daws and Michael Eigen, London, Routledge, 2020, 279 pp., £96.00 (cloth), £27.99 (paper), £27.99 (ebook). [Extracted from the article]

In the book "Teuflische Allmacht: Über die verleugneten christlichen Wurzeln des modernen Antisemitismus und Antizionismus" by Tilman Tarach, the author argues that there is a tendency to overlook the Christian roots of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Tarach traces the history of antisemitism back to early Christian pogroms and emphasizes the influence of Christianity on Nazi ideology. He also highlights the role of the Catholic and Protestant churches in perpetuating antisemitic beliefs. The book demonstrates that antisemitism has deep historical roots and remains connected to Christianity. [Extracted from the article]

"The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West" by Alex Ryvchin explores the historical and contemporary manifestations of antisemitism. The book examines various myths surrounding the discrimination and persecution of Jews, including the blood libel, the belief that Jews are Christ-killers, and the myth of Jewish global domination. Ryvchin also addresses the concepts of Jewish chosenness, Jewish wealth, dual loyalties, and the perception of Jews as oppressors. The author concludes by emphasizing the importance of exposing and combating antisemitism to create a more inclusive and tolerant society. [Extracted from the article]

"France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime" by Jon Elster is a book that examines the period leading up to the French Revolution. The author explores different interpretations of the revolution and focuses on the psychology of social groups and the political actors of the time. Elster's extensive knowledge of French history and his use of various thinkers and philosophers contribute to his analysis. While some historians may question the inevitability of the revolution, Elster presents it as a result of changing circumstances and the reaction of the third estate. The book also highlights the need for further research on the subject. [Extracted from the article]

The controversies that characterize the history of the Stalin period are many, multifaceted, and quite complex. Finally, Ryan asks whether or not a rehabilitation of Stalin and Stalinism is occurring in Putin's Russian Federation. Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies: edited by James Ryan and Susan Grant, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, xiii + 250 pp., £81.11 (cloth), £26.00 (paper). [Extracted from the article]

Bob Dylan at 80: It used to go like that, and now it goes like this: edited by Gary Browning and Constantine Sandis, Exeter, Imprint Academic, 2021, 260 pp., £14.95 (paper) In this fine collection, I Bob Dylan at 80 i , Gary Browning and Constantine Sandis have curated a book which is Janus-faced. I Dylan at 80 i is a remarkable achievement that provides a genuine sense of Dylan's deep creative well, by offering glimpses into the many elements of the cultural archive Dylan has been assembling over the past 60 years. [Extracted from the article]

Field of Battle: by Sergio Gonzáles Rodrígez, translated by Joshua Neuhouser, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2019, 160 pp., $13.95T/£10.99 (paper) Specifically, I Field of Battle i indicts the administration of Enrique Pena Nieto (President, 2012-2018) for its covert collusion with Mexican drug cartels, American organized crime, as well as the U.S. government itself (especially the CIA), an ongoing process of criminal destabilization unfolding even on a planetary scale. This work represents a linguistic excursion into the "spatial conflict" field - defined here as a "theatre of war" or more precisely "technocratic security model" that intersects with the "lives of individuals, geo-politics, military strategy, the artistic and cultural spheres and the control and surveillance of collectives" (19). [Extracted from the article]

Jean-François Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates: edited by Kiff Bamford, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, x + 206 pp., £23.99 (paper) Having reclaimed the concept of the "figure" from I Discourse, Figure i , one of Lyotard's earliest major works and one of the last to be translated into English, and providing the first sorely needed critical biography of Lyotard in 2017, Bamford has perhaps done more than any other scholar to underscore Lyotard's continuing relevance and sophisticated thinking. Two of the three texts, a personal letter to Lyotard from Deleuze and a review of Lyotard's first major work, I Discourse, Figure i (1971), are decidedly unidirectional or asymmetrical in their import (chaps. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 3 focuses on Euhemerus of Messene, following recent scholarly interest in the topic (including Marek Winiarczyk's 2002 monograph, republished in 2013, when Whitmarsh's book first appeared). The book contains four previously unpublished studies: Chapter 2, "The Romance of Genre", Chapter 3, "Belief in Fiction: Euhemerus of Messene and the I Sacred Inscription i ", Chapter 11, "Lucianic Paratragedy", and Chapter 14, "Adventures of the Solymoi", preceded by a brief Introduction. Tim Whitmarsh's collection of essays has seen the light of day at a time when the academic world is again reconsidering "classicism" and modernity's relationship to the "classical.". [Extracted from the article]

In I Actor Training in Anglophone Countries i , actor, director and theatre scholar Peter Zazzali has considerably deepened and extended his unique performative-pedagogical research. But a more meaningful turn, Zazzali emphasizes, was RADA's efforts to adopt a policy of gender equality and racial diversity - although, as he shows, its graduates continue to criticize the school on these counts (28-29). While the Australian programs investigated are, to varying degrees, closely based on the English and North-American teaching models, Zazzali underlines Toi Whaakari - New Zealand's national drama school - as the best example of an effective postcolonial and bicultural model. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge" by Hannah Star Rogers explores the intersection of art, science, and technology studies (ASTS). The author examines specific episodes in the history of science where science has generated aesthetic objects and instances where artists have attempted to insert themselves into scientific endeavors. However, the reviewer criticizes the book for its narrow focus and lack of historical depth, suggesting that it offers a frivolous perspective on the distinction between art and science. The reviewer finds the book's use of lofty language and references to be wearisome and lacking in substance. [Extracted from the article]

Cassam stresses the need for a detailed intellectual and emotional engagement with the ideology and narratives of extremists by giving them reasons, relative to their own extremist ideologies, to change their views (202). As Cassam notes (29), questions such as what extremism is, what is an extremist mindset, or what defines a common extremist style cannot be answered solely by armchair reflection. Extremism has been a constant presence and threat to the stability of the world in the last few decades. [Extracted from the article]

The author, Gabriel Levy, then proposes his solution: that humanistic and scientistic methodologies can be bridged through a different metaphysics than either of them typically employs, the theory of the late Berkeley philosopher Donald Davidson called "anomalous monism." Surely that is not really how academic discourse works, and the mind boggles at the thought of cultural anthropologist Talal Asad and psychology professor Michael Persinger sitting down to discuss anomalous monism over coffee. But presumably it is not meant literally, and as a philosophy of religion as embodied discourse, Levy's discussion of Davidson's anomalous monism is certainly interesting. [Extracted from the article]

Daniel M. Gross's assessment of Martin Heidegger's Marburg lectures on Aristotle, as well as Philip Melanchthon's reflections on rhetoric are substantial and original. Being-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening: by Daniel M. Gross, Oakland, University of California Press, 2020, viii + 250 pp., $85.00/ 66.00 (cloth), $34.95/ 27.00 (paper), $34.95/ 27.00 (ebook) To demonstrate this point, Daniel M. Gross, in the first chapter, begins his discussion with a re-evaluation of German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger's I Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy i ( I Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie i ), a lecture course given at the University of Marburg in 1924. [Extracted from the article]

Though a computer professional, Meredith Broussard feels "that the way people talk about technology is out of touch with what digital technology can actually do", and that seeing the latter as a panacea has "resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed technology" (6), which needlessly complicates instead of improving or making life easier. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World: by Meredith Broussard, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2019, 248 pp., $15.95T/£12.99 (paper) Supported by extensive research, I Artificial Unintelligence i cogently challenges the prevailing technophile hype extolling the unlimited ways in which technology supposedly can "change the world for the better" and create a digital utopia with infinite benefits in every area of life. [Extracted from the article]

Since 2012 the series has produced 13 volumes, the latest being I The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales i by Hermynia zur Mühlen (1883-1951), which Zipes both translated and edited. The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales: by Hermynia zur Mühlen, edited and translated by Jack Zipes, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, ix + 216 pp., $19.95/£16.99 (paper) In his series, I Oddly Modern Fairy Tales i , published by Princeton University Press, Jack Zipes, a prominent folklore and fairy-tales scholar, revives narratives written by talented but neglected or forgotten authors of the first half of the twentieth century that resonate with political and social conflicts of our times. [Extracted from the article]

"Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" by Nicholas Hoover Wilson explores the history of the East India Company (EIC) and its impact on India. The book highlights the EIC's trade monopoly, which generated wealth for its merchants and allowed the Company to exert control over India. The author argues that the EIC's history is marked by accusations of corruption, which reflect a broader struggle over the meaning of corruption in modern Britain. The book examines how different conceptions of corruption shaped the EIC's transformation into a new kind of organization with a new relationship with the British state. Overall, "Modernity's Corruption" provides valuable insights into the EIC's role in shaping the modern world. [Extracted from the article]

Ai Weiwei is an installation artist who enjoyed great acclaim in the West after having absented himself from China, his homeland. These latter qualities mark both the excellence and the limitations of Ai Weiwei as an artist whose genial personality plays a role in his popularity as significant as the artworks themselves. To be sure, Ai Weiwei possesses the habits and noetic resources of an artist deserving of his celebrity. [Extracted from the article]

Like Nietzsche, Michel Foucault conceives of two opposing political forces of curiosity: curiosity may be institutionalized in consolidated power relations or it may be mobilized through resistance. Curiously, philosophy has not studied curiosity extensively as a proper, self-standing and major topic of inquiry. Zurn's next step is then to discuss philosophers who have not thought of curiosity in such "scientistic" terms and have thus provided nuanced and insightful perspectives on curiosity's ambiguous politics. [Extracted from the article]

Social Appearances: A Philosophy of Display and Prestige: by Barbara Carnevali, translated by Zakiya Hanafi, New York, Columbia University Press, 2020, xx + 278 pp., $28.00/£22.00 (paper) This work takes a large step in making that tradition more accessible through Carnevali's skillful use of Plessner, as well as Georg Simmel and others. Second, Carnevali's work also provides a link with an overlooked tradition, begun by Max Scheler and carried out by Helmut Plessner and Arnold Gehlen, on the topic of philosophical anthropology. [Extracted from the article]

Seasonal Associate: by Heike Geißler, translated by Katy Derbyshire, Afterword by Kevin Vennemann, Cambridge, MA, Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 2018, 239 pp., $16.95/£13.99 (paper) Heike Geißler's nameless female protagonist, temporary employee for the holiday season at Amazon-Germany in Leipzig, has company. The past few years have produced numerous accounts on work, both scholarly and personal, studies of labor and individual narratives of employment, jobs, gigs, the ever more dispersed realm of people's interaction with the economy, made more tenuous on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. [Extracted from the article]

Law as Refuge of Anarchy: Societies without Hegemony or State: by Hermann Amborn, translated by Adrian Nathan West, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2019, 280 pp., $19.95T/£14.99 (paper) Late in his exceedingly protracted life, Ernst Jünger introduced the term "anarch" to refine his notion of resistance amid political decay. Jünger's concept of the "anarch" filled in the space for theories of anarchism equivalent to that occupied by the word "monarch" in theories of monarchy and monarchism. [Extracted from the article]

Interestingly, in analysing E. M. Forster's I Howards End i (1910) and its central idea to "only connect", Bewes suggests that in so strongly calling attention to connection the novel actually already suggests its impossibility. Bewes claims to study something "the novel of our time does unceasingly" (6), yet inherent to that descriptor of "the novel" is a wide geographical generalization. Along with this, Bewes develops another argument, which holds that the more-or-less contemporary novel is not about connection, but rather about disconnection. [Extracted from the article]

Linebaugh draws from a wealth of contextual materials to flesh out the bare bones story of the Despards, arguing that much can be claimed about them with strong probability because it can be correlated to the locations and times of their lives. Dismissed from service and dogged by lawsuits of the "Baymen", Ned, along with Kate and their son James, went to London in 1790, where he was incarcerated in debtors' prison from 1792 until 1794. Peter Linebaugh, an acclaimed expert on eighteenth-century England, is unflinching in his ambitions for I Red Round Globe Hot Burning i : "This book in its quest for Edward and Catherine Despard, and in its quest for the meaning of Despard's last words, promises to vindicate his motives and bring their project, shared with [Robert] Emmet, out of its uninscribed obscurity" (65). [Extracted from the article]

Shklar self-reflectively viewed her own intervention, I After Utopia i , as sharing in the spirit of the age "to the extent of being neither able nor willing to build an original theory of politics" (xix). Shklar's book is a valuable narrative, more so in hindsight of the gradual decline of transformative political aspirations since the Enlightenment and simultaneously of the very transformation of modern philosophy. Shklar's book provides a rich and informative account of how the Enlightenment did not triumph and why its main feature, namely, its radical hope, is now forlorn. [Extracted from the article]

This short book by Lorraine Daston is a classic essay: she identifies an intellectual conundrum - why do humans across cultures and history look to nature for models for cultural norms and orders? What we are referring to when appealing to a "natural order", then, is the existence not of I one i particular natural order but of normativity as such. The text is an outtake and deepening of central ideas Daston developed in her I Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 i (with Katharine Park; Zone Books, 1998). [Extracted from the article]

"Volatile States in International Politics" by Eleonora Mattiacci explores the increasing unpredictability of state behavior in world politics. The book combines statistical data and archival frames of reference to explain the concept of "volatility" in international politics, its causes, impact, and potential remedies. The author examines factors that contribute to interstate volatility, such as relative power and resource availability, and proposes novel methods for measuring volatility. The book also provides a detailed assessment of countries engaged in strategic rivalry and explores the prevalence of volatility in interactions between countries with defensive commitments. While the book emphasizes the importance of understanding volatility, it neglects the larger context of the security dilemma and the potential value of creative diplomacy in countering volatility. Overall, "Volatile States in International Politics" is a well-written and valuable introduction to the concept of volatility in international politics. [Extracted from the article]

"George Orwell's Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech" by Glenn Burgess is a book that explores the relationship between liberalism and socialism in Orwell's work. The author argues that Orwell's vision combines both ideologies and that they are mutually dependent on each other. The book examines Orwell's views on real-world experiences, political violence, and the importance of freedom of speech. However, the book also addresses contemporary issues such as "wokeism" and the debate surrounding cancel culture, although the evidence presented in this regard may be less convincing. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of Orwell's political thinking and his contributions to the fields of liberalism and socialism. [Extracted from the article]

I Thinking and Talking i is the fifth volume of the collected papers of Giorgio Baruchello. Baruchello is an original from beginning to end; he is a thinker not afraid of challenging conventional theories and approaches and is willing to follow his thoughts honestly to the conclusion that he feels is the most sound. Baruchello's handling of David Lewis's materialism is a case study in how to explain extremely subtle arguments simply, but without oversimplification. [Extracted from the article]

Ronald Bogue, Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia, has compiled many of his previously published journal articles and chapters on Gilles Deleuze in this book. Thinking with Deleuze: by Ronald Bogue, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, xvii + 450 pp., $33.95/£25.99 (paper) The comprehensive nature of Bogue's analysis and application of Deleuze's ideas make the volume valuable to anyone who wants to learn more about Deleuze. [Extracted from the article]

The 2019 reprint of Lyn Lofland's 1978 I The Craft of Dying i is heaven-sent. In Part 1,"The Situation of Modern Dying: Problems and Potentials", Lofland explores the new "face of death ... to specify some of ... the problems and potential" (3), in particular, "the fact that (presently) "dying" is often prolonged" (4). The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death: by Lyn H. Lofland, 40th Anniversary Edition, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2019, 160 pp., $19.95T/£14.99 (paper). [Extracted from the article]

Perl was appointed the Auschwitz concentration camp's gynecologist and head of a nine-person hospital for 32,000 women prisoners. Thanks to Phyllis Lassner and Danny M. Cohen, this 2019 edition of an out-of-print 1948 memoir by Dr. Gisella Perl, a Rumanian Holocaust survivor, offers much to learn from. I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz: by Gisella Perl, Introduction by Phyllis Lassner and Danny M. Cohen, Afterword by Eva Hoffman, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2019, 125 pp., $90.00/£69.00 (cloth), $36.99/£28.00 (paper), $35.00/£27.00 (e-book). [Extracted from the article]

Twenty-four capitals of Nazi-occupied countries suffered grievously under the jackboot heel of the Third Reich. Herzog exemplifies the best the Third Reich might have amounted to save for Hitler's depraved and delusional influence (which Herzog despises). At the same time Manet's many factories produce armaments for the Third Reich, and he has a delighted Lucien design new showcase factories. [Extracted from the article]

Almost two years ago I reviewed I The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals i by Harry Redner in these pages; Redner, in turn, around much the same time had reviewed a book by Beibei Guan and myself on Charles Baudelaire and what we considered mistaken about Walter Benjamin's politicized aesthetics. Much of the brilliance of I Ulysses and Faust i shines through in the aperçus that abound throughout, and one can see that Redner is as thrilled by the works he is reading as he is by the discoveries he makes in undertaking the exploration. Just before his death he had completed a book criticizing the managerial ethos of the university and academic publishing - the very project strikes me as a fitting adieu from Harry to an institution that had provided him, and those who learnt from him, with so much only to evaporate before his eyes. [Extracted from the article]

Martha Nussbaum has an impressive list of books to her credit, including the great I Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities i (2016), and her latest, I Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation i (2021). Nussbaum's critical inclusion of economic need is a useful correction to the cosmopolitan course, but her treatment of the subject can only go so far as it makes the following assumptions. Lastly, Nussbaum's treatment of the influence of religion is sparing, but religion is a powerful force around the world that can either support cosmopolitan aspirations or drive separation and division. [Extracted from the article]

The historiographical debate over the Great War continues. This essential tome is a good example of how the Great War has been instrumentalized over the years by various individuals and groups eager to achieve their political objectives, no matter how reasonable and legitimate they were. [Extracted from the article]

It is unfortunate that Appadurai and Alexander decided to limit the focus to the problems of "late capitalism", as they see it. I came to this book expecting not to like it, but with the hope that I would learn something of value about the nature of failure. Rather, Appadurai and Alexander instead use the phrase to mean a situation when a market system leads to an undesirable outcome. [Extracted from the article]

Danto's answer - that there is no way to tell the difference without understanding the context of the art world within which the art object is placed - established him as a perceptive and original philosopher of art. On the other hand, one might worry that too wide an opening of artistic practice to include anything anyone recognized as an artist decides to present as art threatens Danto's definition of artworks as "embodied meanings." This short collection of conversations between the renowned American philosopher of art Arthur C. Danto and Italian art critic Demetrio Paparoni will serve as an effective introduction to Danto's work for those unfamiliar with it and a fine coda to his career for the more well-versed reader. [Extracted from the article]

B Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present b (London: Routledge, 2020), 300 pp., £120.00 (cloth), £36.99 (paper), £31.44 (ebook). B The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt b (London: Routledge, 2013), xiii + 204 pp., $160/£86.75 (cloth), $62.95/£46.99 (paper). B The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City b (New York: Verso, 2020), 336 pp., £15.19 (cloth). [Extracted from the article]

This document provides a list of books received by the journal "European Legacy." The books cover a wide range of topics, including the conflict in Ukraine, the war in Syria, science communication, natural history, gender in the garden, fascism, the Soviet Union, neoliberalism, skepticism, metaphysics, corporate influence on democracy, ethical dilemmas in the defense industry, the rise of Christianity, women's role in politics, geopolitics and democracy, religious alternatives to liberalism, and the concept of creating a child. The books come from various publishers and were published between 2020 and 2024. [Extracted from the article]