Carlin Romano, former critic at large for The Chronicle, is a professor of philosophy and humanities at Ursinus College and author of America the Philosophical (Knopf, 2012).
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A popular Harvard philosophy course makes its way from the stage to the page.
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His scholarship was as impressive as his fiction, and he pursued both with a good-natured humility.
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Why are you reading Keats but not Barry Cornwall, Austen but not Mary Brunton?
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It seems a forgotten art in an era of endless wars.
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Eurocentric accounts of the discipline have shortchanged Asian and African achievements. Peter K.J. Park is helping to change that.
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In Ukraine, Iraq, and many other places around the globe, political philosophy’s neglected stepchild is again raising havoc.
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Evelyn Barish’s new biography raises questions about how a scholar’s ethics should affect our reading of his work.
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Recent books highlight the counternarrative of the hard copy’s “durable glories.”
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Students have long gravitated toward it, and now the Western philosophy establishment is starting to also.