A New Age of Whitehead Scholarship
At the end of his first year of what would turn out to be thirteen years teaching at Harvard, Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to his eldest son, North, in which he discussed how he felt about teaching his…
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Beyond time travel in time travel stories and cinema with Gilles Deleuze
Trips into history. Journeys to the future. Encounters in the present with visitors from the future or past. There are no limits with time travel stories. Some of the first telly I fell in love with as a kid was…
Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue
Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.
Arabic and Hebrew in one Text
Dr Mohamed A. H. Ahmed discusses authors who started their literary careers writing in Arabic before switching to write in Hebrew due to social surroundings
Diversity in British Film and Television
The controversy over ‘all-white’ 2020 BAFTAs once again shows the importance of understanding that issues of diversity are at the forefront of debates film and television. But it’s not just a question of who is, and is not, in the…
Aristotle and gender: form vs matter?
Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary divided between those who determine the social world – men – and those who need to be determined – women…
Scottish Muslims: Unity and Belonging
Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made up of people of various ages, ethnicities and social classes. But what they have in common is that they identify…
Scottish Fashion Influencers and Contemporary Illustrations of Scottish Identity
When considering the definition of Scottish fashion and what constitutes the Scottish fashion industry, most of us probably think immediately of traditional textiles. Indeed, when searching for information on “Scottish fashion” using Google I am immediately met with the websites…
God in Aristotle’s Ethics
By Tom Angier Does ethics need religion? Do we need to believe in God to be good? These are standard questions in moral philosophy. Strangely, however, they are not asked about (arguably) the greatest philosopher in the Western tradition: namely,…
Edward Lamberti on his new book ‘Performing Ethics through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader’
Read on and explore the ideas behind writing Performing Ethics through Film Style book by Edward Lamberti. Levinas’s ethics in a nutshell The notion of ‘Otherness’ is other people’s differences from me and my sort of person. This can be…