Reviewed by Hayden Bytheway
There is a contradiction invoked by the concept of “guilty pleasure,” which entails both admonishment and amusement.
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Interviewed by Luke Forrester Johnson
Christy Wampole discusses Princeton University’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM).
By Emily Schuckman-Matthews
EuropeNow features a selection of scholarly articles and books on topics pertinent to the teaching of Europe or teaching in Europe that were published within the last 5 years.
Reviewed by Douglas G. Morris
The grand narrative behind much human rights scholarship is that the Nazi regime plumbed the depths of evil, but its defeat yielded the Nuremberg trials, which held that evil to account and ushered in a new era of international justice.
By Manuela Boatcă
As a cultural entity, political project, and military-economic power, Europe has played different roles throughout ancient and modern history.
By Andrew Cole and Brooke Holmes
When we think about the past, we contemplate “history,” and this in turn compels us to talk about “events” and assign them to a given “decade” or “century”—all of these, upon reflection, being hardly straightforward terms or processes.
By William Stewart
In 1913, the Austrian writer Robert Musil made an intriguing if not unsettling observation: among the mathematically inclined, there appeared to be two, diametrically opposed ideas about the relationship of mathematics to the “real world.”
The History and Future of Childhood: Representing Children in Late Third Republic France (1900–1940)
By Hannah Stamler
In 1922, the Franco-Belgian journalist Clément Vautel published a dystopian story entitled Le dernier gosse (“The Last Kid”). Printed in the satirical journal Le Rire, it foretells of a 1950s France where there are no new births, save one—a miraculous “last child.”
By Jonathon Catlin
In her masterful 2002 book Evil in Modern Thought, the philosopher Susan Neiman traces an “alternative history of philosophy” from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake to the September 11 terror attacks, arguing that the greatest advances in modern philosophy have been driven by the problem of evil, or ways of justifying the suffering of the innocent.
