The September sale features quite a few books by famous scholars. I will introduce some of them. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire develops the argument for a system of education that “ urges viewing students as interlocutors or partners in the learning process.” More than fifty years after the book was published in English, it keeps attracting readers and inspiring debates. In 2018, on the 50th anniversary of the book, Bloomsbury released its new edition. The Sociology/Anthropology section offers an older edition of Freire’s book in the subsection on theories and methods.
Another book in this sub-section that I want to draw your attention to is a 1944 book by Gunnar Myrdal An American Dilemma. As Social Science Research Council wrote in 2021, “For Myrdal and his collaborators, the central dilemma was the unresolved tension of the “American creed”—the celebration of ideals of equal opportunity and democracy, in the face of deep and enduring racial discrimination and inequality. The dilemma has changed, but it has not receded.” So, reading the book may be worthwhile even though it was first published eighty years ago.
There are two more books from the Theories and Methods subsection that I want to present: The Wretched of the Earth (first published in 1963) by Frantz Fanon and The Great Transformation (first published in 1944) by Karl Polanyi. Foreign Affairs wrote in 1997 reviewing Fanon’s book: “Fanon, a French-trained psychiatrist from Martinique who became an activist in the Algerian revolution, berated African elites for their bourgeois tendencies and narrow nationalism and called on African intellectuals to identify with popular strivings.” Discussing Polanyi’s book, The Conversation pointed out that “in his view, the attempt by liberal social engineers to establish a “self-regulated” market system was bound to tear the social fabric, provoking responses that would undermine the operation of the system itself.”
Unlike the books presented above all of which were published in the XX century, the last book to which I want to point—Death of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Angus Deaton and Anne Case—has been recently published. In an interview for VOX, the authors—both economic professors at Princeton—talk about their research and explain its findings. The book can be found in the U.S.: Self-Reflection subsection.
Finally, I want to mention two new subsections: Cultural Anthropology: City and the one that I named In case you need more copies. The latter contains double copies of some books that have been accumulated over the last few months. Overall, the Sociology/Anthropology section offers 506 books for the September sale.
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Note that the following overflow shelf of Sociology is located on the other side of Aisle A2
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