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Susan Longfield Karr
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Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights

Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
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It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. (1984/4)
October 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. (1984;2)
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Check this amazing collection of essays, especially by my brilliant co-editor! There’s one the state of nature in there worth checking out, too. 🙂
July 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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20/20
Cover of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
December 9, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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19/19
Cover of John Gottfried Herder's Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
December 8, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Please pass it on.

CFP: Women in the history of political thought
3-day conference; 7-9 May 2025
Ghent, Belgium

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December 7, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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18/18 (really all of his works, not just this one)
The cover of the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
December 7, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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17/17
Cover of Emile Durkheim's Division of Labor in Society
December 6, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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16/16
Cover of Franz Kafka's The Trial
December 5, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
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15/15
Cover of George Orwell's 1984
December 4, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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14/14
Cover of I married a communist by Philip Roth
December 3, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Day 13, Book 13
Cover Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
December 2, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Day 12, Book 12
Cover of William Shakespeare's Hamlet
December 1, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Day 11, Book 11
Cover of Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
November 30, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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Day 10, Book 10
Cover of Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
November 29, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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if you see this, post a knight.
November 29, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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November 28, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Day Nine, Book Nine
Cover of My Side of the Mountain by Jean George
November 28, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Day eight, book eight
Cover of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
November 27, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Book seven, Day seven
Cover of the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
November 26, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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Book six, Day six
Cover of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of Democracy by Mary L. Dudziak
November 25, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Day five, book five
Cover of Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (translated by Edwin McClellan)
November 24, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Day four, book four
Cover of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
November 23, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Day three, book three
Book cover for How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
November 22, 2024 at 4:00 PM