US rights sold: ‘Conjectures’ by James Leatt

Conjectures by James Leatt, originally published in 2021 by Karavan Press, will be released in the United States following Wipf & Stock’s acquisition of US rights.

Established in 1995, Wipf and Stock Publishers has been publishing books that serve the church and academy under its general imprint, Wipf & Stock. The publishing focus of Wipf & Stock is broad, offering titles in biblical studies, theology, ethics, church history, linguistics, history, classics, philosophy, preaching, and church ministry.

Conjectures is Professor James Leatt’s philosophical reflection on his life and times as he grapples with the realities of parish work in black communities, teaching ethics in a business school under apartheid, managing a university in the dying days of the Nationalist regime, and eventually working in higher education in post-apartheid South Africa.

Weaving strands of his personal life with the questions of theodicy and modernity as well as drawing upon the Western…