It’s been fifteen years since the last fat volume of essays on contemporary Scottish writing. Only a blink of historical time, but it’s been quite an eventful period. When the chapters of Berthold Schoene’s brilliant Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature were being written, both the country and its debates looked rather different.
Category: Politics, Philosophy and Religion
We were delighted to host philosopher Etienne Balibar in a fascinating online conversation about his book, Spinoza: The Transindividual. Published…
by Stuart Sim The right to express political dissent is supposedly integral to democracy, but it is coming increasingly under…
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by John M. Pemberton Is the world changing? When you cycle along on your bicycle, are you moving? If you…
by Mieke Bal My new book explores and analyses making “thought-images” by means of “image-thinking”. In my experience in making…
by Ryan J. Johnson Stoicism seems to be everywhere these days – bestseller lists, email blasts, social media posts, corporate…
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by Simon P. Kennedy Back in 1532, the French Protestant reformer, John Calvin, wrote a major commentary on Seneca’s De…