New review of No Other Planet

Benjamin L. McKean (Ohio State University) has just published a thoughtful and generous review of No Other Planet in Contemporary Political Theory.

An excerpt can be found here:

“As this overview suggests, No Other Planet covers an enormous amount of ground, drawing from an admirably wide range of texts and showing an impressive mastery of multiple literatures. This fits the book’s focus on the education of desire, since there are so many channels through which desire might be educated. It’s also an important way of decentering traditional approaches to political theory, showing that other ways of engaging with politics may illuminate our present circumstances better than the familiar tools of abstraction and generalization. In that way, the book is an exemplar of problem-driven interdisciplinarity and a model of how theorists can and should make use of cultural resources to understand our world.”

The full review, including insightful criticisms, is here:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-023-00644-2


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