Philosophy

Carl Benedikt Frey’s How Progress Ends opens with a premise that most people find uncomfortable: progress is not inevitable. We tend to assume that technology will keep advancing, economies will keep growing, and each generation will live better than the last. Frey, an economist at the Oxford Martin School, argues that this assumption is not…

Steven Nadler and Ben Nadler’s Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy is something rare: a work of genuine philosophical substance delivered in the form of a graphic novel, accessible to general readers without sacrificing intellectual integrity. A philosopher father and a cartoonist son collaborate here to bring the great heretics of early…

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) appeared in September 2018 from Haymarket Books and landed with the compressed force of a book that knows exactly what it is doing. Rebecca Solnit gathered twenty-two essays written in the years immediately following the 2016 presidential election, essays that had appeared in the Guardian,…

Heretics! The Wondrous Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler and Ben Nadler is a compelling and beautifully illustrated graphic narrative that brings the revolutionary thinkers of the seventeenth century to vivid, irreverent life. About the Book Steven Nadler is one of the foremost historians of early modern philosophy, best known for his magisterial biography…

I Want You to Be: On the God of Love by Emmanuel Falque is a searching and courageous work of philosophical theology that dares to ask what it truly means for God to love human beings — not as abstract doctrine, but as an embodied, demanding, transformative encounter that reshapes what we understand about both…

Summary Fifty years after the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth shook the world with its computer models of civilizational collapse, the same organization commissioned a successor. Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity, published by New Society Publishers in 2022 and winner of the Meridian Award, is that successor. Written by Sandrine…

Written on a smuggled phone from Australian immigration detention on Manus Island, Behrouz Boochani’s Victorian Prize-winning memoir is a work of philosophical literature and political witness unlike anything else in contemporary world writing.

When Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a young man at the Tübingen seminary in the early 1790s, he filled notebooks with fragments: compressed observations on religion, politics, love, and moral life that he never intended for publication. “Aphorisms on Love and Law” gathers some of the most striking of these early fragments alongside related short…