Poetry cornered
Goodbye, sweet Calliope, farewell Erato? In a consumerist world where speed and image rule, poetry's emotional meanings are being lost. Neil McBride muses, partly through verse, on the future of this...
Search
-
-
The French disconnection
Bruno Cousin and Michèle Lamont say academics at France's public universities need to rethink their strategy after this year's protests alienated the public and had little impact on the Government
-
Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
A more ambitious project than the contents convey is suggested by the subtitle of Ian Hesketh's book. It amounts to a discussion of what happened at the meeting of the British Association for the...
-
The Canon: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. By Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a book of philosophy written in short, seemingly oracular, numbered remarks. Its conclusion suggests that those who understand its author will regard...
-
Book of the week: Southern Horrors
Sexual violence was rife in the 19th-century US, as Mary Evans discovers
-
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
Gwyn Prins on a book he says helps to wreck the chance for a mature debate on climate change
-
The mythbuster
Although we may be unaware of it, a number of powerful preconceptions still dog our understanding of the turbulent history of Czechoslovakia, as Mary Heimann discovered. Matthew Reisz reports
-
Published this week
ECONOMICS- The Problems of Disadvantaged YouthEdited by Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of Chicago Press, £76.00. ISBN 9780226309453Taking...
-
Odds and quads
Along with ketchup containers and an apple-shaped promotional radio, this Rhoda Handbag - designed by Sarah Bayley - forms part of the collection at the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP).
-
Still time to influence the impact agenda 1
The research impact debate has already run a lively course. Impact is an integral part of the proposed research excellence framework - a fact that has caused concern in some quarters of the academic...
-
Still time to influence the impact agenda 2
"Impact statements are intended ultimately to benefit society," argues Dave Delpy, "not interfere with funding" ("They're not unreasonable", 26 November). However, he seems to be unaware of the basic...
-
Still time to influence the impact agenda 3
In defending impact statements, Dave Delpy, RCUK's "champion for economic impact", neatly destroys his own argument. If he believes that as a non-expert he "could write a statement indicating...
-
Still time to influence the impact agenda 4
Dave Delpy claims that the petition I posted on the Number 10 website contains a "significant misrepresentation" when it refers to the policy of both the research councils and the research excellence...
-
Still time to influence the impact agenda 5
I really enjoyed Dave Delpy's piece, in which he sends up RCUK's policy on impact statements by pretending to be a hopelessly ignorant quangocrat with no understanding of the nature and role of pure...
-
Terms of concealment 1
Your article on philosophy cutbacks in UK universities calls for a wider debate ("Being philosophical may be limited to 'leisured' classes", 26 November). Terms such as "vocational" and "academic"...