“A brilliant, deeply learned, and carefully argued book.”
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Mary Harrington, First Things: Best Books of 2025
“Angela Franks’s superb new study of modern selfhood, Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self.”
Carl Trueman, First Things: Best Book of 2025
“My scholarly book of the year is Angela Franks’s Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self. … I was dazzled both by its learning and its commitment to articulating a Christian understanding of selfhood. … Franks does a remarkable job of showing how so many of these thinkers allow us to see more clearly into the problematic nature of our age. This is a book that deserves wide readership.”
Law and Liberty
“Illuminates how our culture came to be unrecognizable to so many. … It is a careful and vast intellectual history. … This deeply considered work is a welcome contribution to the present literature on the body, gender ideology, and the self. … Substantive, careful, and expansive.”