Pop music and youth culture are known to be among the great British exports of the late twentieth century. Be…
Category: Politics, Philosophy and Religion
Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.
British History
It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest
One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government…
Language and Literature
You Don’t Know Jacques: Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and the Denial of Deconstruction
Fifty years have passed since the publication of Of Grammatology, and the Oxford Literary Review has dedicated its July 2018…
My guest edited special issue of Nottingham French Studies (NFS), explores ‘Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France‘, fleshing out…
Wonder is largely absent as a topic of concern to contemporary philosophers. Yet ancient philosophers saw it as the source…
Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s…
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
My article “Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria Through a Reform of the Legal and Institutional Frameworks” in African Journal of International…