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Fazıl Ahmed Pasha and the Politics of Knowledge: In Conversation with M. Fatih Çalışır

by Nilab Saeedi In this interview, Nilab Saeedi speaks with M. Fatih Çalışır about the intellectual life of the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, where knowledge was not only preserved or encouraged but deliberately used to shape governance. Their interview centers on… Continue Reading →

Marx’s Reception in the United States: An Interview with Andrew Hartman

by Alec Israeli In Karl Marx in America (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Andrew Hartman offers a history of Karl Marx’s role as “ghost in the machine” of American life and thought. Beginning with the significance of Marx’s observations of… Continue Reading →

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby

by Robin Manley

Knowledge and Colonialism in the Atlantic Republic of Letters: An Interview with Diego Pirillo

by Matias X. Gonzalez

Translation in Different Keys: An Interview with Kasia Szymanska

by Rose Facchini

From Anticolonialism to Constitutional Capture: An Interview with Sandipto Dasgupta

by Zainab Firdausi

Friendship and the Politics of Difference: An Interview with David Weinfeld

by Thomas Cryer

Navā’ī’s Elevation of Turkic Literature in a Persianate World: An Interview with Aftandil Erkinov

by Nilab Saeedi

Living in a New Sattelzeit: An Interview with Enzo Traverso

by Jonathon Catlin

The Other Bataille: An Interview with Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano

by Jared Bly

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