The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
An Essential Romantic: On Dorothea Veit-Schlegel
Dorothea Veit-Schlegel shared some commitments with male Romantics, but she critiqued many of their central ideas, especially in relation to gender, education, and personal development.
Anna Ezekiel recovers an essential Romantic thinker and writer
Complaining about Incarceration
The notion that the people suffering from mass incarceration could testify truthfully about the system’s horrors was, and still often is, contentious. . . . Even more controversial: the idea that incarcerated people can critically analyze their position.
Luke Fidler on complaint and justice in prison
In Hope of Bulkington: Moby Dick and American Doom
We cannot know the end of America, though we know from the first unfurling of Ishmael’s prophecy that the voyage of the Pequod is doomed.
Daniel Fitzpatrick follows in the wake of the doomed Pequod
Theologies of History: Hebrew Prophets and German Protestants
For these readers of the Bible, the prophets were no longer predicters of the future—messianic or otherwise—but interpreters of God in past and present.
Paul Michael Kurtz on the German theorist of Jewish history