Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series)

By: Judith Butler and Fred Turner and Lilly Irani and Stacey Balkan and Imani Perry and Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Nathan Connolly and Matthew Engelke and Philip Gorski and Kim Phillips-Fein and Max Holleran and Najwa Al-Qattan and Jeremy Adelman and Destin Jenkins and Andrew Perrin and Kieran Setiya and Shannon Mattern and Jill Lepore and Suzy Hansen and James Vernon and Lynn French and Salamishah Tillet and Matthew Clair and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ursula K. Guin and John Plotz and Christopher Schaberg and Eli Rosenblatt and Barbara Cassin and Rebecca Falkoff and Haruo Shirane and Karl Ashoka Britto and Joseph Jonghyun Jeon and Marah Gubar and Anne E. Fernald and Namwali Serpell and Tess McNulty and Mark McGurl and Nicholas Dames and Jan Mieszkowski and Karen Dunak and Daegan Miller and John R. McNeill

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Synopsis: Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine’s distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today’s leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, N. D. B. Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780231548717
Publisher:: Columbia University Press
Date of Addition:: 06/14/23
Copyrighted By:: Judith Butler, Fred Turner, Lilly Irani, Stacey Balkan, Imani Perry, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Nathan Connolly, Matthew Engelke, Philip Gorski, Kim Phillips-Fein, Max Holleran, Najwa Al-Qattan, Jeremy Adelman, Destin Jenkins, Andrew Perrin, Kieran Setiya, S
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Communication, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sharon Marcus
Edited by:: Caitlin Zaloom