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

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