A Special Issue of writings from and inspired by: Arendt, Attridge, Barnett, Bhabha, Clarke, Deegan, Derrida, Evans, Heaney, Kanter, Mandela, Moltow, Ndebele, Nussbaum, Stimpson, Strathern, Tagore, New Voices and Editors. *How do we defend the Humanities? *How do we stave
The evil of banality: Arendt revisited by Elizabeth Minnich
‘Is our ability to judge, to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly, dependent upon our faculty of thought? Do the inability to think and a disastrous failure of what we commonly call conscience coincide?…. An answer, if at all,
The Humanities, the public intellectual and human flourishing
Something needs to be done – urgently. We are agreed – right? But what? (Robert Garland, AHHE v 11.3, ‘The Humanities Plain and Simple’) His answer, below: ‘If more of us could commit to having a public, extra-curricular role, we might
Calling Philosophy postgraduates: design a module!
The UK Philosophy revised ‘Benchmarks’ have just been published http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/Publications/Documents/SBS-philosophy-15.pdf How would you teach the subject of your research to university students? Outline your ideal course in 500 words for publication here and in a Special Issue of the journal