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Forging Late Roman Italy
Read more: Forging Late Roman Italyby Jeroen Wijnendaele (This text incorporates my introduction for the book launch of Late Roman Italy at Hamburg’s RomanIslam centre […]
All Stories Run on Two Tracks:What Formalism Offers Presentism
EUP author Katherine Voyles discusses the process around writing a double review for the Victoriographies Journal.
Event Catch-up: Vanessa Lemm in Conversation
We were delighted to host a fascinating online conversation with Vanessa Lemm about her book, Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics. The book expertly highlights the relevance of Nietzsche’s thinking about human nature for contemporary debates in biopolitics and posthumanism.…
COVID, Class and Digital Labour in the Neoliberal World
by John Michael Roberts It is generally agreed that the crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed society in the present and for the foreseeable future. In particular, there is great concern among politicians, policy-makers and the general public…
Scottish Diaspora Virtual Issue
Our Scottish Studies Scottish Diaspora Virtual Issue has just launched, and features almost 30 journal articles and book chapters from across our Scottish Studies lists, with introductions written by Beth Cowen from Glasgow University and Ersev Ersoy and Kristian Kerr…
Anniversary of the African Union: AJICL Virtual Issue
By Prof. Hajer GUELDICH Prof Hajer GUELDICH introduces our special African Journal of International and Comparative Law Virtual issue on the anniversary of the African Union. This issue is free to access on the Edinburgh University Press journals website until…
Stands Scottish Literature Where It Did? Revisiting Devolution
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.
Event Catch-up: Etienne Balibar in Conversation
We were delighted to host philosopher Etienne Balibar in a fascinating online conversation about his book, Spinoza: The Transindividual. Published in our Incitements series, it is one of the most important books published on Spinoza in the last 30 years.…
Calling All Dissenters, Calling All ‘Woke’
by Stuart Sim The right to express political dissent is supposedly integral to democracy, but it is coming increasingly under threat from authoritarian governments. The danger this poses to the liberal democratic community is the subject of my latest book,…
Plato on how to describe the changing world
by Takeshi Nakamura From time to time throughout his dialogues, Plato complains how difficult it is to capture the transient natural world with inert language (e.g., the Theaetetus and the Cratylus). After all, the world in flux changes as you…