The Hedgehog Review (order here)

Our Spring 2008 issue—“Imagining the Future”—is on its way to the press! This issue will include Richard Bernstein on democratic hope, Krishan Kumar on the history of utopia in Western literature, and a review essay of Francis Fukuyama’s Blindside by IASC Director Joshua Yates.

Celebrating Our 10th Year of Publication. Issues will include: Imagining the Future, The Media and Politics, and Citizenship. Order a 2008 subscription or peruse our back issues online.

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This latest issue focuses on “Ambiguous Distinctions” with a special interest in questions of identity.  Read former IASC Fellow Felicia Wu Song's essay on “Social Networking Sites” and Editor and IASC Director Joseph E. Davis’s piece on “Moral Order.”

Postdoctoral Fellows

(English) Wilson Brissett, “Edward Taylor’s Public Devotions,” Early American Literature 43.1 (2008).

(Philosophy) Adam Kadlac, “Acceptance, Belief, and Descartes’s Provisional Morality,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10.1 (2007).

(English) Kevin Seidel, “Beyond the Religious and the Secular in the History of the Novel,” New Literary History 38.4 (2007).

(Sociology) Regina Smardon, “‘I’d Rather Not Take Prozac’: Stigma and Commodification in Antidepressant Consumer Narratives,” Health 12.1 (2008).

A Selection from Our Faculty Fellows

(Religious Studies) Jennifer L. Geddes, “Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust,” Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil, ed. Robin May Schott (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007).

(Sociology) Krishan Kumar, “The Future of Revolution: Imitation or Innovation?” Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization and Modernity, ed. John Foran, David Lane, and Andreja Zivkovic (New York: Routledge, 2007).

(Religious Studies) Charles T. Mathewes, A Theology of Public Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

(Sociology) Jeffrey Olick, The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility (New York: Routledge, 2007).

(Politics) Stephen White, “Uncertain Constellations: Dignity, Equality, Respect and …?” The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition, ed. David Campbell and Morton Schoolman (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).