Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’?
It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this governmen…
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Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’?
It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this governmen…
4 months ago
As Ryder Cup fans throw beer at players’ wives, we investigate if fans’ conduct has got worse or changed little since ancient Athens when Plato bemoaned the mob
The abuse hurled at Europe’s golfers in…
5 months ago
Was the ‘western alliance’ dreamt up to further American and British interests? Georgios Varouxakis argues that the idea is older, quintessentially European, and even anti-imperialist
For your book Th…
6 months ago
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Can we experience something bigger than ourselves in the midst of busy, humdrum lives?
Some philosophers find inspiration in mountains, such as Nietzsche, and some in caves, like Plato. Clare Carlisl…
10 months ago
We cannot be neutral with respect to fake news, misinformation or outright lies
In western academia, everything began with philosophy. Ever since, especially since the Enlightenment and the scientific…
12 months ago
The Pulitzer prize-winning rapper chose artistry over more obvious showmanship in an unusual set yet still delivered the final blow to his diss track nemesis
The Super Bowl half-time show is Plato’s p…
14 months ago
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