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— Orlando Patterson, author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
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-Margaret R. Somers, author of Genealogies of Citizenship
Power in Modernity Reviews
Critical Historical Studies, Fall 2022, Volume 9, Issue 2. Reviewed by Tad Skotnicki.
American Journal of Cultural Sociology, May 2022. Reviewed by Omar Lizardo with a reply by Isaac Ariail Reed.
The American Historical Review, September 2021, Volume 126, Issue 3: 1237–1238. Reviewed by William H. Sewell, Jr.
Social Forces, July 2021, Volume 100, Issue 2: e16. Reviewed by Michael Strand.
Journal of Political Power, 2021, Volume 14, Issue 3: 520-545. Reviewed by Mark Haugaard, Clarissa Hayward, and Jonathan G. Heaney, with a reply by Isaac Ariail Reed.
Law & Society Review, September 2021, Volume 55, Issue 3: 525-527. Reviewed by Jack Jin Gary Lee.
The British Journal of Sociology, July 2021, Volume 72, Issue 4: 1159 – 1161. Reviewed by Jonah Stuart Brundage.
Symposia
Cultural Sociology, published online November 28, 2021:
Introduction to the Book Review Symposium by Marcus Morgan, Leonidas Tsilipakos
Power and the People by Emily Erikson
The Recurrence of the King’s Second Body? by Leonidas Tsilipakos
Processual Power, Processual Meaning? by Stephen Kemp
How Does Popular Sovereignty Vary? by Monika Krause
Power, Culture, and Materiality in Modernity by Marcus Morgan
Order, Delegation, and Exclusion in the Negative Space of Political Modernity: A Reply to My Critics by Isaac Ariail Reed
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, published online March 15, 2021:
Agency Troubles: a Review of Isaac Reed’s Power in Modernity by Werner Binder
Resisting the Revenge of the Romantic Hegel: a Reply to Werner Binder’s Essay by Isaac Ariail Reed
By the Book: Isaac Ariail Reed in Conversation with Samuel Moyn
Give and Take with Scott Kent Jones
Theory and Philosophy with David Guignion