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Alienation Reconsidered: Fischbach on Marx and Spinoza

A coloured picture (the colours are mainly black, white, grey and purple) depicting a portrait sketching of Karl Marx and Baruch Spinoza side by side. Marx is on the right hand side looking towards the left and Spinoza is on the left hand side looking ahead and to the left.

Philosophy / Political Philosophy

How can reading Spinoza help us to understand Marx's concept of alienation under capitalism?

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnSeptember 20, 2023
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A Q&A with the editors of Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion

Cultural Studies / Film and TV

by Alexia L. Bowler and Adele Jones Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion (2023) is the first collection of scholarly…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnSeptember 13, 2023

Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self: Q&A with the author

Language and Literature / Literary Theory / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

by Roberta Kwan Tell us a bit about your book. My book is about human knowing, or more precisely, humans…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnSeptember 8, 2023

James Joyce and the two McCarthys

Language and Literature / Literary Studies / Literary Theory / Post 19th Century Literary Studies

by Derek Attridge There are two names in the subtitle of my book Forms of Modern Fiction: Reading the Novel…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnSeptember 1, 2023

Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis

A black-and-white photograph cityscape of New York, centering on the Empire State Building, with dramatic cloulds above.

International Relations / Philosophy / Political Philosophy / Politics / Politics, Philosophy and Religion / Sociology

I want to talk about how all of us can decolonise human rights in our everyday lives, in constructive and imaginative ways

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnAugust 23, 2023

Mediated intimacy: Lessons for the future from lockdown creativity

Cultural Studies / Film and TV / Language and Literature

by Emily Goodwin and Sarah Brophy Video calls. Collaborative docs. Memes. “Live” concerts. Vaccine selfies. Netflix. Case rate data. Digital…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnAugust 11, 2023

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

A picture of the manuscript leaf of the Throne Verse from the Quran. The colour of the letters is black and with a few red signs, the colour of the paper is light beige and there is a thick vertical dark beige line along a thinner, bluer line on both sides of the text.

History / Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies / Language and Literature / Religion / Religious History / World History

by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnAugust 10, 2023

Situating the crusades in Syrian history: a Q&A with James Wilson

Detail of miniature from a manuscripts of the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din that shows the besieged city of Mashhad al-Dai (Eastern Iran) in 998 CE. Three horseman are shown riding out of the city, about to engage the aggressors who are also riding horses. All of them are armed.

History / Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies / Religious History / World History

Tell us a bit about your book My book is about the situation in Syria before, during and after the…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJuly 31, 2023

Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare – Q&A with the author

Language and Literature / Literary Studies / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

by Joan Lord Hall What inspired you to research eros in Shakespeare’s work? Knowing that I had taught Shakespeare for…

ByEdinburgh University Press
OnJuly 28, 2023

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