Think in Public (eBook)

Think in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today's leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change.

MarcusSharon:

Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London(California, 1999) and Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton, 2007), and Editor-in-Chief of Public Books.ZaloomCaitlin:

Caitlin Zaloom is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London(Chicago, 2006) and Editor-in-Chief of Public Books.ButlerJudith:

Judith Butler (PhD, Philosophy, Yale) is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and
Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory (of which she was the Founding Director) at the University of California at Berkeley. Among her many works are Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia, 2012), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (Columbia, 2012), Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia, 2002), and (with Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West) The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia, 2011).PerrinAndrew:

Andrew J. Perrin is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of American Democracy: Toqueville, Town Halls, and Twitter (Polity 2014) and Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life (Chicago 2006).SpivakGayatri Chakravorty:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (PhD, Comparative Literature, Cornell) is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Among her many books are Death of a Discipline (Columbia, 2003) and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard, 1999); her influential article 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' was published in the volume Marxism and Contemporadry Cultuere (Illinois, 1988). Her interests include the politics of culture, postcolonial theory, 19th and 20th-century literature, and globalization.DamesNicholas:

Nicholas Dames (PhD, English, Harvard) is Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and Brigtish Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford, 2001) and The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Oxford, 2007). I chose him as a reader for his broad interests, publications on contemporary fiction in popular media (Atlantic, n+1, New Left Review, New Yorker, and The Nation), and coeditorship of the Rereadings series (Columbia) and Public Books.Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom are the founders and editors in chief of Public Books. Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her books include Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007) and The Drama of Celebrity (2019). Zaloom is associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (2006) and Indebted: How Families Make College Work At Any Cost (2019).

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Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine's distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today's leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, N. D. B. Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.