Author: Guest Author

A Strong, Stable and Prosperous Africa Benefits the Entire World

This is a guest post by Loic De Canniere, author of The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare In 2025, eleven of the world’s twenty fastest-growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa – including South Sudan and…

Engaging the Citizenry

Engaging the Citizenry

This is an interview with Sarah Murray and Lachlan Umbers, editors of Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy What inspired this edited collection on Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy? Australian democracy depends fundamentally upon an active, engaged citizenry. In this respect,…

The Silent Scene of Reading: Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience

Nathan Wainstein interviews Bryan Counter, author of Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience Nathan Wainstein: At the outset of the book, you say that it ‘will approach aesthetic experience with a focus on life’. I find this interest in immediate or…

Tackling the Challenges of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long and Joseph A. Pisani, authors of The Responsibility of Reason in Leadership, Management, and Life Long Learning Emotions affect stakeholders throughout an organisation. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes…

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…