
Everything Black – an extract from ‘Black Dignity’ by Vincent W. Lloyd
Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy Black Dignity: The Struggle against…
Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy Black Dignity: The Struggle against…
‘Sorrow and despair constitute a lingua franca. Yet tragedy in the artistic sense is a highly specific affair.’ In Tragedy, eminent literary critic Terry…
This month marks the bicentenary of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx’s birth. To mark this moment, we have reissued celebrated writer and Marxist Terry…
This year, we’re delighted to be publishing Terry Eagleton‘s tenth work with Yale, Radical Sacrifice, a weaving and cross-cultural examination of sacrifice from ancient times to…
We’re thrilled to be publishing Terry Eagleton’s latest work, Radical Sacrifice. Written in Eagleton’s trademark piercing and erudite style, this trenchant analysis uproots the modern…
For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. In War: An Enquiry, renowned philosopher, A. C….
Mindfulness meditation in the West has become a common practice. Many of its Western practitioners, however, do not identify as Buddhist. In this thought-provoking…
Anthony T. Kronman’s latest book, Confessions of a Born Again Pagan, offers a third way—beyond atheism and religion—to the God of the modern world….
To coincide with the publication of his new book The Edge of Reason, we invited Julian Baggini to address the general downward trend of reason…
‘If Terry Eagleton didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent him.’ – Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers Terry Eagleton…
Alberto Manguel is a tour de force when it comes to reading, and in fact all things book related. Best described as ‘a reader’,…
Speed Limits by Mark C. Taylor helps make sense of a world in which everything from fashion to finance has undergone rapid change. Taylor argues…
Jealousy, the green-eyed monster, has been spotted here at Yale Books. A fascinating emotion, jealousy occupies a paradoxical space on the emotional spectrum: we all feel…
Yale‘s Little Histories are a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the most significant events, ideas, discoveries and people throughout history. As…
While a staple in modern-day statistics classes, Bayes’ rule, as immortalized in our statistics textbooks, has been killed and revived several times. Although public…