Wonder is largely absent as a topic of concern to contemporary philosophers. Yet ancient philosophers saw it as the source…
Category: Philosophy
In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond….
Welcome to November where, very sadly, we’ve reached the last in our blog series for OLR’s 40th anniversary. To go…
A special issue of journal, Paragraph, guest edited by Elissa Marder, creatively re-imagines Shoshana Felman’s groundbreaking 1977 volume of Yale…
In 1963, Jean-Luc Nancy tackled the subject of generational silence in his article ‘A Certain Silence’ (republished in OLR in…
At the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Theresa May’s speech turned into the stuff of every presenter’s nightmares, something…
Marcel Proust once said, “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners…
Welcome to the not-so-sunny days of August where, in the perpetual spirit of celebrating OLR’s 40th anniversary, we are sharing…
Welcome to July! This month we are doubly celebrating as, not only does OLR keep embracing the ripe age of…
At just the age of 34, Bill Readings sadly died in a plane crash. He left behind a legacy of…