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If you enjoyed The Chair, we’d recommend checking out these novels, all of which offer compelling depictions of English departments.

Many of today's aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.

When the socialist intellectual and writer Raymond Williams died, suddenly and prematurely, in January 1988 at the age of 66, tributes expressed the loss in superlative terms. The British left, Robin Blackburn wrote in New Left Review, had lost its “most authoritative, consistent and radical voice” and the national culture its “most acute critic”. At a commemorative evening

La política negativa ha sido tan efectiva que muchos han llegado al poder aplicándola. | Columnistas | ElTiempo.com

- ¿Por qué escoge textos de los argentinos Daniel Hopen y Haroldo Conti como antesala del libro Hegemonía y cultura en tiempos de contrainsurgencia «soft»?Haroldo Conti, de orígenes cristianos (estudió el seminario para sacerdotes) es uno de los gran

Esta semana en DIORAMA, aquí mis recomendaciones literarias. | Jorge Garduño

Daily Times July 31, 2021 “No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the Megaton bomb. It ends in the total menace, which organised mankind poses to organises men, in the epitome of discontinuity.” When Adorno wrote these lines, millions of Palestinians were undergoing ethnic cleansing by Irgun and Lehi. Half of its population was expelled with no right to return to their native land. Even those who wanted to assimilate had m...

From the late 19th century, humanity began to move faster than it ever had before in history towards specialisation in various disciplines of knowledge. At the same time, we witnessed the divide between academic parlance and the common reader widening. Today, leave alone mathematical philosophy or theoretical physics, the knowledge offered by texts of literary criticism and applied sociology is becoming inaccessible to those untrained in these subjects. The specificity of language and style in ...

Are Tragedies Tragedies If They Conclude with a Consolation Prize? Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored "Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel." He can be reached at [email protected] Gershon Hepn...

Histórica herética del humor, desde Aristóteles a Ricky Gervais Terry Eagleton publica un ensayo sobre humor, filosofía y política Póster promocional del espectñaculos "Animals", de Ricky Gervais   12/07/2021 11:29 El legendario Terry Frances Eagleton (Salford, 1943) es uno de los mejores analistas culturales de la izquierda marxista, cristiana y obrera. Además, y esto es relevante, estamos ante un pensador capaz de ser gracioso sin perder profundidad. Durante años, en las contrapo...