
Matt McAdam
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Executive Editor @jhupress (lapsed philosopher and skateboarder)
Joined October 2013
This is shockingly unprofessional behavior from someone who edits a magazine. Editorial discretion is a fundamental principle of publishing. It's baffling to see one publisher try to strongarm another one like this. @d_kodsi, this is an embarrassment to you & @philosophersmag.
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“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, who created a liberal arts honors college.
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“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.” That’s Jennifer Frey, who was lured away...
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New! This debate happened yesterday: Epistemology Debate: Timothy Williamson vs Michael Huemer, Knowledge-Fir... https://t.co/giGU2ymafG via @YouTube
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We’re not talking enough about how lowsy the weather has been in Baltimore this spring.
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The death of Alastair MacIntyre prompts my semi-annual reminder of this incredible fact: Habermas is still alive.
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After years of work, my book, Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance, is finally available. I hope you read it. I hope it makes you think. I hope it breaks your heart. https://t.co/duO6fH1rdg
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An American Story of Deportation and Resistance
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Pleased to see this piece out in public. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers @PoPpublicsphere and @tmbejan who encouraged me to keep pursuing this topic.
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Rawls & the Rediscovery of Liberal Hope By @ckgrubaugh
https://t.co/yABPJPowLv
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Anyone else feel completely (and disappointedly) manipulated by Severance?
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Join me and @BrandyLJensen as we talk about whether classic books should be dumbed down so that people can read them. (And @SandTClassics The Country of the Pointed Firs.) Take an MLA break. This Thursday, 6pm, Octavia Books, NO, LA.
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I am so proud and excited to finally be able to share something that’s been in the works for months. Introducing…MID THEORY COLLECTIVE: a space by and for early career scholars in the humanities to think, learn, read, and write together: https://t.co/dwzR8SC6jg
mid-theory.com
the contemporary and its curiosities
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Join us next week for the first ever History of Medicine week! Each day we'll host a webinar at 12 pm est on how we do the history of medicine. You can find the full of webinars and register here. Please share widely! See you next week!
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All Fredric Jameson articles are now open access until the end of October. https://t.co/BV532jyAc4
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Bill Brown For those inhabiting the world of literary theory and cultural criticism, the loss of Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) comes as a disorienting blow like no other. In part this is because his …
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“It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism. Perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imaginations.” (1994)
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Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi movies.
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We are working on a remembrance, but we cannot overstate the influence of #FredricJameson on Duke University Press. We have made his articles in our journals freely available through October 31. "Postmodernism" is our all-time bestselling book. https://t.co/GW3u0d70VR
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Several years and many reviewers and editors later, my latest bit of philosophical writing is finally up at Ethics. It considers the moral basis of the right to be forgotten and begins to think about what's valuable, and what's open, about an open future https://t.co/9fvG9voPyQ
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This article seeks to shed light on debates about the right to be forgotten by offering a new account of the right as grounded in the confidence that the direction of one’s life is up to one and...
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Another great position for those early career folk with some experience in the UP publishing!
Job opening in the @UChicagoPress books division: I'm hiring a Senior Editorial Associate and Acquisitions Department Coordinator to work out of our office in Hyde Park (hybrid OK). Please email with any questions. Details at link: https://t.co/89oVRtyiIM
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