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  • Common Sense: Between Democratic Promise and Political Peril

    Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.

    March 2, 2026
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Food insecurity in Scotland

David Watts discusses the challenges of reducing food insecurity in Scotland, and the Scottish Government's 'Cash-First' initiative.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • March 10, 2025
  • 1 Comment
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Catastrophic Technology: Perspectives on the end of the world

Caroline Ashcroft explores the connections between current and mid-twentieth-century thought on the catastrophic potential of technology

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 20, 2025
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He Stuttered: A Letter from Gilles Deleuze

Dorothea Olkowski reflects on the work of Gilles Deleuze through a letter she received from him at the inception of Deleuze studies.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 17, 2025
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A parcel of rogues in a nation? Twenty-five years of the Scottish Parliament

David McCrone explores public opinion on the devolved Scottish Parliament over the past 25 years.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 13, 2025
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Do your movements in sleep resemble artificial frogs?

What does Aristotle say about the relationship between dreams and reality? And what does it have to do with frogs?

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • January 31, 2025
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The use and abuse of antiquity for life

Ryan J. Johnson examines the journey that brought him and his co-editors to Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • January 29, 2025
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The US and UK as embedded democracies

Benjamin M. Studebaker evaluates the realistic chances of anti-democratic revolution in the United States and the United Kingdom

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • January 22, 2025
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This Deleuzian Century

Ian Buchanan kicks off our celebrations of the centenary of Gilles Deleuze's birth.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • January 16, 2025
  • 1 Comment
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Arguments against the Scottish visa are overblown

The author of The Politics of Immigration in Scotland discusses the benefits of a regional immigration policy for Scotland.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • December 11, 2024
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