This is an author interview by Fernando G Herrero, author of The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect. What was the assembling idea behind this work? I was in the middle of the PhD at Duke University in the…
Finding Oneself in Art’s Visionary Moment
This is a guest post by Sidney Homan, author of Art’s Visionary Moment I speak here only for myself, not out of modesty or even a fear of generalization, but because I have had increasing doubts about the value of…
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Others
This is a guest post by Constantine Sandis, author of Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and…
A long-term view of feelings about immigrants
This is a guest post by Ben Braber, author of Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021: From Alien to Migrant The public debate about immigration is raging in Britain and abroad, but English language use keeps changing. That…
The Power of Literature: ‘Colette and the Incest Taboo’
This is a guest post by Carol Mastrangelo Bové, author of Colette and the Incest Taboo. Julia Kristeva’s book Colette sparked my interest in an author I had not understood when I first read her decades ago. So literary critics…
The Second Cold War and Beyond
This is a guest post by Richard Sakwa, author of The Culture of the Second Cold War Three decades ago, we believed that the era of the Cold War had come to an end. How wrong we were. The style…