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Kierkegaard bicentennial birthday book giveaway!

Today is not only Cinco de Mayo, but it's also the 200th anniversary of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's birth. To celebrate, we're giving away a free copy of Richard McCombs's The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard! In his new book, McCombs presents Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith.

If you'd like to win a copy of this fresh reading of Kierkegaard, send an email to winiupress@gmail.com with your name and mailing address. Entries will be accepted through 5/10/13 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Winners will be notified by email.

Three books reviewed in The American Historical Review

Three of our books were reviewed in The American Historical Review:

War of Words, War of Stones

"This book is painstakingly researched, providing a compelling portrait of the intricacies of Zanzibari politics in the post-independence period and the historical legacies that shaped those politics. ... [I]t will stimulate the sorts of discussions about race, nationalism, and memory that can help to reshape and move scholarship forward." 

The Question of Gender

"[The editors] provide fresh analyses of the state of gender studies and the dynamic theories of 'sexual difference' as proposed, tested, and critiqued by Joan Wallach Scott." 

Mercury, Mining, and Empire

"With meticulous research and vivid prose, Nicholas A. Robins examines silver mining's human cost in the royal mercury mines of Huancavelica, Peru, and the silver mines of Potosi."

Book review: Queer Ecologies

"[V]ibrant texts, brimming with possibilities for rethinking, rereading, and reinflecting the links between perception, ontology, epistemology, politics, and ethics. ... [A]llow[s] for the possibility of further reflections on the material conditions of intellectual inquiry, and for what materialities our 'immaterial labors' might creatively enact, change, transform." —Women's Studies Quarterly

Book review: Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

"[A] remarkably lucid analysis of the relationship between philosophy and science . . . I highly recommend it." —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Two IU Press books reviewed in Philosophy in Review

The following books were reviewed in Philosophy in Review:

Country Path Conversations

"Bret Ellis ... provides a thoughtful, clear and highly readable translation of these conversations."

Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

"Lawlor has clearly and forcefully articulated the central driving impulse behind continental philosophy and thereby reminded us of what we lose if we continue down those alternative paths."

john a. powell to discuss 'Racing to Justice' at Conservation Law Foundation

Author john a. powell will give a talk and signing for his book Racing to Justice Monday, January 14 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m. at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston, MA. This event is sponsered by The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. For more information, contact Ruth Goldman. 

Learn more about Racing to Justice in this book trailer:

UC Berkeley to host book launch for 'Racing to Justice'

The University of California, Berkeley will host a book launch for john a. powell's Racing to Justice November 7. He will discuss his new book from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. A reception and booksigning will follow the lecture. 

For more information about Racing to Justice, visit the IU Press website or watch this book trailer:

Book review: Levinas and James

"[T]he volume contributes in an important way to the greatly needed realization that the boundaries between philosophical traditions need not be as sharp as they are sometimes thought to be—and makes, with Levinas and James, the even more vital point that ethics should return to the center of our philosophical projects." —Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

Tune in to hear an interview with john powell on Maryland Morning

Photo by Tom Rudd

john a. powell, author of Racing to Justice, will appear on the "Maryland Morning" radio show this Friday, October 26, at 9:09 a.m. The show will be broadcast on WYPR (88.1 FM, Baltimore, MD) or you can listen live online.

Learn more about Racing to Justice on our website or in this excerpt from the book.

More October events for 'Racing to Justice' author john a. powell

Racing to Justice author john a. powell has two more events lined up for this month. The first takes place October 19 when powell will sign copies of Racing to Justice at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA. The signing will take place at the Marin Civic Center in the Main Exhibit Expo Hall from 6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. For more information about the conference, visit the Bioneers website.

Then on October 22 at 4 p.m. (EST), powell will appear on "A Safe Place to Talk About Race" hosted by Sharon Davis of VoiceAmerica. During this live one hour show, powell will discuss current issues around race and his book, Racing to Justice. Listeners can call in or submit questions online. Tune into the show on the VoiceAmerica website.