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  • The Acousmatic Work Ethic and the Spirit of Sound Studies

    Patrick Valiquet asks why contemporary sound studies forgets the troubling moral and political aspects of Pierre Schaeffer’s experimental music research.

    March 25, 2026
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Five Types of Mysticism: Religious Culture in the Age of Modernism

  • Language and Literature / Literary Studies / Modernism / Religion

by Jamie Callison Ask for a description of a mystic or a follower of mysticism, and you might be greeted…

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnOctober 2, 2023

Reconceiving ‘Wellbeing’ in AI Governance: Prosperity without Autonomy?

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  • Ancient Philosophy / Philosophy / Political Philosophy / Politics

by Theodore Scaltsas We are all accustomed to thinking of wellbeing in Aristotelian terms, assuming the agent’s choice (proairesis) for…

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnSeptember 27, 2023

Alienation Reconsidered: Fischbach on Marx and Spinoza

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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

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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
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