Wonder is largely absent as a topic of concern to contemporary philosophers. Yet ancient philosophers saw it as the source…
Tag: books
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
By Jennifer J. Smith It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is so much great television. From limited streaming…
At the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Theresa May’s speech turned into the stuff of every presenter’s nightmares, something…
Politics, Philosophy and Religion
Muslims in Scotland: Demographic, social and cultural characteristics
By Stefano Bonino First published on the LSE Religion and the Public Sphere blog – read the original article Far…
By Stacey Abbott As the evenings draw in and the temperature drops, my mind turns toward the ghostly, the ghoulish…
In January 2016, a scandal broke out in the UK when the Times reported that asylum seekers’ homes could be identified by distinctive red doors, making them vulnerable to attacks. Coincidentally – but not where signs and the political are concerned – A Process Philosophy of Signs opens with an account of threatening identification on doors.
Here at Edinburgh University Press it’s safe to say that we love books. And we love books that make us…
By Anthony Paul Smith. As I was thinking back on the writing of the recently published François Laruelle’s Principles of…
Philosophy
‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – an extract from Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance
Jean Baudrillard on Muslims in France, the simulation of freedom in America, the demise of the intellectual and why French theory is like the Statue of Liberty.