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‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement
Read more: ‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancementDonald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross

Jean-François Lyotard: A Sceptic for Our Times
I first encountered Jean-François Lyotard's work in the mid-1980s, after the publication of the English translation of his book The Postmodern Condition. It was a text that created quite a stir in the English-speaking academic world, drawing a lot of both praise and criticism. I was one of those to be critical, as in the first thing I ever wrote about Lyotard, a journal article for Radical Philosophy, where I argued there was a nihilistic quality to his thought.