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George Scialabba

Book Review: “The Last Utopians” — Visions for Tomorrow?

Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?

By: George Scialabba Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and their Legacy, George Scialabba, Princeton University Press, The Last Utopians

Book Interview: George Scialabba on Low Dishonest Decades — and the Dishonesty to Come

Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: American left, George Scialabba, Low Dishonest Decades, Matt Hanson, Pressed Wafer Press

Book Review: “Neurotic Beauty”—Japanese Therapeutics

Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.

By: George Scialabba Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: George Scialabba, Japan, Morris Berman, Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan

Fuse Book Interview: “For the Republic” — An Independent View

George Scialabba is still outfoxing the professional eggheads in For the Republic, his third collection of essays on political and cultural topics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: essays, For The Republic, George Scialabba, Reviews, The Modern Predicament, What Are Intellectuals Good For?

Book Review: So You Say You Want a Revolution? “Democratic Enlightenment”

Jonathan I. Israel has written a monumental three-volume history of the Enlightenment, approximately 2500 pages long, not including three lengthy bibliographies. His erudition is fabulous; his range is dizzying.

By: George Scialabba Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: 1750-1790, and Human Rights, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, George Scialabba, history, Jonathan I. Israel, revolution, The Enlightenment

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