Walter Kaufmann (1921-80) was a Lutheran of Jewish descent who converted to Judaism. Fleeing Nazi Germany for America, he became professor of philosophy at Princeton University after active service...
Alan Gilmore is doubtful of a study that ignores credible science and focuses on the unknown
In the early 1970s, a sociologist using the pseudonym James Patrick published a book that he researched by going undercover in Glasgow's tough inner-city housing schemes and participating in the...
Musicologists, as well as opera buffs, will welcome this well-documented and thoughtfully written study on a relatively rare topic: namely, the practice and performance of insertion arias in operatic...
A confused attempt to explain the unspeakable falls back on the usual suspects, writes Fred Inglis
A.W. Purdue feels this Tory analysis may underestimate the fluidity of the electorate
Ludwig Wittgenstein was unarguably one of the most compelling and applicable thinkers across so many disciplines. Here, Christopher Robinson, assistant professor of humanities and social sciences at...
As Jane Chapman notes in her introduction to this broad-ranging book, "documentary is now so popular and diverse that it needs to be understood as complex, multifaceted and influenced by a range of...
Paula Gerson is transported to Galicia by this guide to the route to Saint James' remains
You cannot put a good man down! This appears to be David Loades' third book on the Tudors to have been published in 2009, and in total he must soon be approaching his half century, which should...
The word "genocide" was coined by the Polish-born Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943. Taking its roots from Greek and Latin, it describes the targeted and intentional killing or destruction of a...
? = Review forthcomingGEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES- Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning: Opening the Bureaucracy to StrangersBy Diana MacCallum, lecturer, Griffith School of the...
Willy Maley enjoys the complexities, but not the cack-handed certainties, of this magisterial tome
Academics in our humanities departments were shocked to learn last week that a thorough investigation by a university management team had failed to find any evidence for the existence of an I (impact...
Let’s abolish it and nurture scepticism instead, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto