Reviewing Rasheed Tazudeen’s Modernism’s Inhuman Worlds for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is a strange task, for, while the book itself is certainly an example of U.S. thought, it draws its methods and objects of analysis from other intellectual traditions. Not only is the body of literature it examines distinctly European; its methodology pushes back against the very notion of national boundedness, reaching toward what, in a nod to the work of Susan Stanford Friedman, Tazudeen refers to as a “planetary” conception of modernism.[1] Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of ecocriticism, animal studies, and affect theory, the Read more