Rest was once seen as a prelude to eternal life, but in the 19th century, it transformed into a leisurely activity. Our book of the week looks at the concept of rest as an evolving aspect of human and animal life. By Alain Corbin on Polity buff.ly/4gbueLS

#NewBookAlert: Prof. Jacob Dlamini’s “Dying for Freedom” uses the apartheid security archive in South Africa to explore the complex ways in which anti-apartheid activists used death as a means to political ends. Read more Polity politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

In their new book, Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein (Jeffrey Kopstein) cut to the heart of a major battle for the soul of modern government – 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 is OUT NOW!

In their new book, The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future (Polity), political scientists Jeffrey Kopstein, UC Irvine, & Stephen Hanson, William & Mary, argue for the defense of modern government ...

This op-ed draws on my upcoming book, Why America Can’t Retrench, published by Polity. Brits will be able purchase the book on Friday; North Americans will have to wait until November. politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not the free market and the flowering of personal liberty. The end of the rule of law leads to the only realistic alternative: the rule of men. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 . OUT NOW.

"Ambitious in scope and aspiration, this book transforms our ideas of what substance “biographies” can achieve, exploring the variety of carbon’s ways of being, narrated across cosmological, planetary and human histories." -John R. R. Christie (University of Oxford) on ↓

I turned my book into an hour-long course, which I'll be teaching via Sex Ed Lecture Series in 2 weeks! Taking it gets you CEs via AASECT. Sign up here & learn how we can end the objectification of women! sexedlectureseries.square.site/product/subjec… Polity

Michel Barnier’s secret diary just got busier! 👀 amzn.eu/d/h8OVtEm

🚨 OUT TOMORROW in 🇬🇧 🚨 In "Why America Can't Retrench (And How It Might)" I argue that the US will never undergo a meaningful strategic adjustment unless it undergoes a period of domestic reform, renewal, and realignment. 1/

Standing up for the achievements of humanity and its legacy is the precondition for avoiding a state of cultural paralysis. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑠𝑡 by Frank Furedi – OUT NOW!

Whoever is elected President in November 2024, the US must abandon its foreign policy of military primacy, argues Peter Harris in his new book 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝐶𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ (𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑀𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡) – OUT NOW.

Michel Houellebecq is one of the most widely read and thought-provoking novelists writing today. 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 2020, now available in paperback, revisits some of the controversial themes for which he and his novels are most famous.

Helga Nowotny's highly original account of the nature of artificial intelligence and its implications for our future is now available in paperback.

Bart Schultz argues that utilitarian philosophy must be decolonized and reimagined for the current moment: a time of new and looming existential threats, in a world desperate for social change. His new book is out now.

What kind of political structure might one day enable Israelis and Palestinians to overcome the seemingly interminable cycle of violence and live in peace with one another? Shlomo Sand argues that a bi-national state is the only realistic solution. His book is out today.