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The Will to See

January 20, 2023

Bernard-Henri Lévy— Reporting . . . The first thought this word always brings to mind is universel reportage and the disdain in which France’s most exacting… READ MORE

Examining Heidegger’s Legacy: A Conversation with Richard Wolin

January 10, 2023

Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. But the 2014 publication of his “Black Notebooks” reveals a deeper and more radical ideology… READ MORE

Forgiveness: An Alternative Account

December 19, 2022

Matthew Ichihashi Potts— In the weeks after George Floyd was murdered, when people were marching and protesting in cities across the United States, a video of author and activist Kimberly Jones went… READ MORE

Ep. 95 – Matthew Ichihashi Potts on Forgiveness

December 5, 2022

In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Matthew Ichihashi Potts about his new book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, a deeply researched and poignant reflection on… READ MORE

Ep. 93 – Vincent W. Lloyd on Black Dignity

November 22, 2022

In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to author Vincent W. Lloyd about his new book, Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination. In what might be… READ MORE

Black Dignity: A Conversation with Vincent W. Lloyd

November 15, 2022

Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination exposes how Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy. In what might be… READ MORE

Indigenous Peoples Day 2022 Reading List

October 10, 2022

A selection of Yale University Press titles related to Indigenous resistance, literature, and history. Many titles in this reading list are from The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians… READ MORE

“Uncompromising”: Ludwig Hohl and the Prose that will Survive

November 16, 2021

Joshua Cohen— The Swiss writer Ludwig Hohl (1904–1980) spent the bulk of his final decades—the decades during which he received his only acclaim—living poor in a Geneva basement strung with… READ MORE

A Clue to the Nature of Man: the Symbol

June 16, 2021

Ernst Cassirer— In the human world we find a new characteristic which appears to be the distinctive mark of human life. The functional circle of man is not only quantitively… READ MORE

A Secular Miracle

March 4, 2021

Peter E. Gordon— In 1770, the empress Maria Theresa summoned to the Viennese court an imperial counselor named Wolfgang von Kempelen, a man from the Hungarian city of Pressburg who… READ MORE

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