Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley looking out a window

Publications

Books

Erasing History book cover

Erasing History: How Fascists rewrite the Past to Control the Future

One Signal Press, 2024

Translated into German, Italian, Chinese (Complex), Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Polish, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish

The Politics of Language

(with David Beaver)
Princeton University Press, 2023

Reviews in LanguageMind, Ethics, Analysis, Perspectives on Politics, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

The Politics of Language book cover
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them book cover

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Penguin Random House, 2018

NY Times Bestseller

Translated into Greek, Portuguese/Brazilian, Portuguese/Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Croatian, Serbian, Persian, Japanese, German, Polish, Swedish, Thai, Finnish, Tamil, Turkish, Korean, Murathi, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Chinese (Complex), Lithuanian, Romanian and French.

How Propaganda Works

Princeton UP, 2015, Paperback, 2016

Translated into Simplified Chinese (Taiwan), Traditional Chinese (mainland China), Japanese, Turkish, and Italian

I am a board member of the Prison Policy Initiative, an innovative group that effectively takes on the Prison Industrial Complex. 100% of my proceeds for this book go to this organization. My reasons for serving on their board are given in my board interview here. I hope they are compelling enough to lead you to consider making a donation to them.

Special Issues of Journals or Journal Symposia

How Propaganda Works Book cover

Knowledge and Practical Interests

Oxford UP, 2005

Some reviews:

Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsMindNous (critical study)

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Book Symposium, with contributions by Gilbert HarmanRam Neta, and Stephen Schiffer

Knowledge and Practical Interests book cover

Papers

Recent Papers*

*Most link to penultimate versions – for citation, check the journal or book. Some links are temporarily unavailable.

Shorter Replies and Reviews

Some older papers

  • Persons and their Properties, The Philosophical Quarterly48, 1998: 159-175.
  • Names and Rigid Designation, A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Hale and Wright, ed., (Oxford, Blackwell Press, 1997): 555-585.
  • Rigidity and Content, Language, Thought, and Logic: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett, edited by Richard Heck, Jnr. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997): 131-156

Cover photo: Yurii Stefanyak, Ukrainer