This paper explains the meaning and significance of violence in Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence (1908) through an examination of three distinctions that structure the book. First between the proletarian strike and the merely political strike; second between myth and utopia; third between violence and force. The paper looks to Sorel’s ear…[Read more]

Georges Sorel’s ideas about education are key to making sense of his critique of the Third Republic. Cutting across the heated debates over classical as opposed to modern curricula, Sorel drew on a complex account of the nature of scientific knowledge to offer a sustained defense of education within the factory and on the picket line as a source o…[Read more]

Cet artcle défend l’idée que, dans la pensée sociale de Sorel, la production artistique, de même que la catégorie de l’esthétique dans sa philosophie, revêtent beaucoup plus d’importance qu’on ne l’a pensé jusqu’à présent. Giambattista Vico est le principal auteur sur lequel s’appuie Sorel pour introduire l’esthétique dans l’analyse de la réali…[Read more]

“The essays in this volume attend to both of these possible relations to the infrastructures of inscription. They explore not only how white supremacist histories and infrastructures have limited and foreclosed black expression but also how black expression has extended, recoded, and transformed some of these very structures, affording new possibilities.”

Book Review of Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object / Kathleen Rooney.–ISBN 978-1-55728-891-2. Reviewed by Rachel Chatalbash.

Book Review of The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.–ISBN 978-0-8014-4578-7. Reviewed by Mary Catharine Johnsen.

Book Review of Art and the End of Apartheid / John Peffer.–ISBN 978-0-8166-5002-6. Reviewed by Andrea V. Cancellare.

Book Review of Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay / John Dixon Hunt.–ISBN 978-1-86189-393-2. Reviewed by Ann Armstrong.

Book Review of Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts / Edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro.–ISBN 978-0-300-14826-8. Reviewed by Cheryl Ann Lajos.

Book Review of Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980 / Rebecca M. Brown. -(Objects/histories).–ISBN 978-0-8223-4355-4. Reviewed by Melissa Aho.

Book Review of The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs / Joseph Cunningham.–ISBN 978-300-13909-9. Reviewed by Kathy Woodrell.

Book Review of New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art / Edited by Christiane Paul.–ISBN 978-0-520-25597-5. Reviewed by Jennifer Tobias.

Book Review of Animal & Sporting Artists in America / F. Turner Reuter, Jr.–ISBN: 978-0-9792441-1-7. Reviewed by Joan Stahl.

Book Review of Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists / Janet Chapman and Karen Barrie.–ISBN 978-0-8263-4424-3. Reviewed by Tom Riedel.

Book Review of Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture / Dianne Sachko Macleod.–ISBN 978-0-520-23729-2. Reviewed by Susan Nurse.