This is an author interview by Keith McDonald and Wayne Johnson, authors of The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic and the Western Film Q1. What was the importance of writing this book now? The Western has always been cyclical…
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Mourning the Dissolution of the Monasteries
This is a guest post by Lisa Hopkins, author of Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays When Shakespeare writes in Sonnet 73 of ‘Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang’, he was referring to…
Why did Russell abandon his 1913 Theory of Knowledge manuscript?
This is a guest post by James R. Connelly, author of Wittgenstein’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement In May–June 1913, Bertrand Russell wrote roughly 350 pages of a draft manuscript provisionally titled Theory of Knowledge. His goal…
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
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…
About The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect: Five Critical Conversations
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…