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Make America Sane Again: Reflections on Trumps Travesties catalogues Donald Trumps many travesties, dating back to his first inauguration but concentrating on his second term. The book is a nearly daily analysis of Trump's horrors, one by one, including his personal demons, his quest for unlimited power, and his various wars on democracy, justice, women, trans-genders, medicine, science, universities, free thought, law firms, the environment, the IRS, the homeless, poor people, Africa, and more. The analysis is written with a meticulousness and rigor that reflects the authors scientific training, but in a conversational, easy-to-read letters-to-the-editor style. (A number were published in the NYT or Chicago Tribune.) Furthermore, many of the letters have a bit of a twist in them, enlivening the discussion. The style is unique in the political reporting genre. Autorid: Sheldon Hirsch

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blakes wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing. Blakes poetry and designs reveal a consistent preoccupation with eighteenth-century natural philosophical debates concerning the properties of the physical world, the nature of the soul, and Gods relationship to the material universe. This book traces the history of these debates and examines images and ideas in Blakes illuminated books that mark the development of the monist pantheism, which contends that every material thing is in its essence God, to the idealism of his later period, which casts the natural world as degenerate and illusory. The book argues that Blakes philosophical thought was not as monolithic as has been previously characterized, and that pantheism is important to understanding his early works because it entails an ethics that respects the interconnected divinity of all material objects not just humans which in turn spurns hierarchical power structures. Autorid: Joseph Fletcher

The book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a self-described militant moderate, draws on his participation in many public debates. The articles are grouped into six, topical groupings that range widely: the growing need for moderate voices in policy debates; the nature of American exceptionalism; the challenge of civic discourse; the depredations of the Trumps first term; and policies concerning immigration, citizenship, and refugees. Autorid: Peter H. Schuck

This book brings together David Cockburns best work on Wittgensteinian themes relating to mind and language. While none of these papers is well described as exegetical, most are discussions of Wittgenstein, and all are discussions of themes central to his later work and strongly influenced by it. The papers can be roughly divided between the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. They are, however, united by the idea that this standard classification of topics stands in the way of clear thinking about core issues, and, closely connected with that, united by the idea that the notion of a human being must be central to any philosophical treatment of them. Cockburns approach is marked by the detailed attention given to the human bodily form, and his approach to language by the central place given to the idea of conversation. The discussions are enriched by incorporating some consideration of our relation to non-human creatures. The papers are linked by an insistence on the inescapably ethical dimension of any adequate discussion of these issues. While the debt to Wittgenstein is enormous, a number of the papers involve what may be significant criticisms of him. Autorid: David Cockburn

Current debates in the environmental humanities, animal studies, and related fields increasingly revolve around this question: What to do with the human? Is the human a category worth preserving? Should it be replaced with the post-human? Should marginalized and minoritarian groups advocate for a universal humanism? What is the relationship between humanism and anthropocentrism? Is a genuinely non-anthropocentric mode of thinking and living possible for human beings? This book argues that the writings of twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers offer twenty-first-century readers a number of crucial insights concerning such questions and timely advice about how not to be human. For Jeffers, our tendency to turn inward on ourselves and to indulge in human narcissism is at the heart of the social, economic, and existential ills that plague modern societies. As a remedy, Jeffers recommends turning ourselves outwardbeyond the self and beyond the humanand learning to affirm and even love the inhuman cosmos in all of its terrible beauty. In the process, Jeffers helps us find our way back to ourselves, but this time no longer as human in the traditional sense but as plain members of the inhuman world. Autorid: Matthew Calarco

"What kind of mother kidnaps her own child? The kind who has no other choice."Katya Dunko grew up in chaos, learning to silence her wounds. To her, home was a place that didn't exist on a map. Pills dulled the ache, and survival became the mask for an addiction-introduced by the one person who should have protected her.Determined to prove she was worthy, Katya followed love to Egypt, believing it would be her transformation. Instead, it became the place that forced her to confront the pain.Spanning four years and four countries, I Drank From the Nile is a raw confession of addiction, survival, and the relentless pursuit of self-worth. A story of resilience, carved from struggle and bound by one unbreakable truth-the cycle ended with her.For readers of The House of My Mother, Only Say Good Things, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Lit, and Not Without My Daughter, this intimate memoir of survival after trauma-of hidden addiction, resilience, motherhood, and breaking generational pain-proves that even in our darkest chapters, we can turn pain into power.