Arts & Humanities

Arts & Humanities

How Soul Music Became the Heartbeat of the Panama Canal Diggers’ Descendants

Trump’s recent declaration to take back the Panama Canal brings to light the forgotten sacrifices of Afro-Caribbean workers – and the legacy of U.S. imperialism in the region.

Arts & Humanities

Cognitive Science and Classical Studies: The Chance for a Constructive Dialogue

There’s a new and rapidly growing discipline on the block and it’s known as cognitive studies. How are its insights into perception, intuition and emotion transforming humanities research? In the case of classics, cognitive approaches have already opened up a world of possibilities.

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Elite Slavery and Professional Football: An Interview With Alexander Rothenberg

What do slave traders and football agents have in common? Alexander Rothenberg’s new book examines the production and use of elite bodies, connecting historical practices of slavery to the working conditions of ‘wonderkids’ in contemporary sports and entertainment.

Arts & Humanities

Hannah Arendt’s Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy

In the fall of 1970, Hannah Arendt delivered a series of lectures on Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy. She was scheduled to teach Kant again in the spring of 1976, though her death in December 1975 prevented her from doing so. Indeed, the fact of her untimely death is central to the story of Arendt’s Kant lectures – both their origin and the scholarly attention given to them.

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