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Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural History
Read more: Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural HistoryDiscover a cross-journal special feature from Library & Information History and Archives of Natural History.
Why Michel Serres? A Personal Reflection – part 2
The captivating reflection of Chris Watkin on why he chose to write on Michel Serres continues below. Hermeneutics of suspicion, hermeneutics of federation Serres is antipathetic to the method of critique characteristic of the human sciences, and in particular to…
Why Michel Serres? A Personal Reflection – part 1
Read this captivating reflection of Chris Watkin on why he chose to write on Michel Serres in his recently published Michel Serres: Figures of Thought. I woke this morning to the news that Michel Serres, philosopher, mountaineer, broadcaster, grandfather, historian…
Stoic advice on the coronavirus crisis
By Christopher Gill Many of the themes regularly used for life-guidance based on Stoic philosophy can help with responding to the current coronavirus crisis; here are a few suggestions. Drawing a clear distinction between what we can and cannot control,…
The Radical Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard
Explore the ideas behind writing the newly published book The Radical Philosophy of Søren Kierkegard by Saitya Brata Das. It is difficult to read Kierkegaard, not to speak of writing about him. The difficulty of reading Kierkegaard and writing about…
The wisdom of greed?
By Nicholas Baima Greed is clearly unjust, but is it foolish? In Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus defends the value of injustice by arguing that it is in one’s self-interest to be greedy. Justice, he argues, is nothing more…
An extract from Lucretius II by Thomas Nail
Take a peek at the book extract from the recently published Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion by Thomas Nail. How can the fear of death lead us to unethical action? In his didactic poem De Rerum Natura, Lucretius tell…
Esprit de Corps and the Right (Not) To Belong
I have always liked in French the word esprit, and this is not very surprising for a philosopher. In 2014, I wondered what Deleuze and Guattari had to say about the word esprit in A Thousand Plateaus. I possessed a…
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…
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…