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New Books in July

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:

America in Italy:  The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the  Risorgimento, 1763-1865 by Axel Korner (Princeton University Press, 2017).

Pragmatism and Justice edited by Susan Dieleman, David Rondel & Christopher J. Voparil (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Minds Without Fear:  Philosophy in the Indian Renaisssance by Nalini Bhushan & Jay L. Garfield (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Fragile Freedoms:  The Global Struggle for Human Rights edited by Steven Lecce, Neil Mcarthur & Arthur Schafer (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Political Utopias:  Contemporary Debates edited by Michael Weber & Kevin Vallier (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination by John Corvino, Ryan T. Anderson & Sherif Girgis (Oxford University Press, 2017).

 

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