This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léono
Is the Shoah a unique event or just one of the many genocides that have occurred (and continue to occur) modern history? In The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah, Shmuel Trigano begins with the hypothes
Tzvetan Todorov explores the complex relations between art, politics and ethics in the two essays that make up The Limits of Art. In the first essay, `Artists and Dictators', he traces the intimate re
In the aftermath of 9/11, the United States government came to apply a practice outlawed in Europe in the eighteenth century and prohibited by the Geneva Conventions and by the United Nations Conventi
Philosophy of the Law is an attempt, through biblical exegesis and philosophical examination, to understand the nature of the political in Judaism, and especially in its founding text, the Hebrew Bibl
