Brecht can be supremely useful to us—if we wish to think through and do something about the present catastrophic state of the world; and what is useful is his method. This is Fredric Jameson’s thesis ...
Ifirst thought of writing about Oscar Wilde when I discovered that hardly any of the Oxford students who asked to study him with me realized that he was Irish.footnote * Since Wilde himself realized ...
For much of its existence the Irish Republican Army has lacked the sympathy or indeed the attention of socialists. In the period of the national liberation struggle in Ireland in the early ’twenties ...
Bush and advised him not to stop now, but to move on to Damascus and Tehran. Yet the US victory had an unintended but ...
Drawings by Cy Twombly, viewed from the sun-scorched clifftops of Casa Malaparte. The artist’s flight from the mid-century ...
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The classicist Joseph Bryant explains the importance of Elvin’s newly discovered 2007 Preface to the PRC edition of Pattern of the Chinese Past, setting out the social-historical ontology that informs ...
Critical appreciation of Adorno’s exegesis of a high water mark of postwar modernism, which parried metaphysical and ...
A serious fall of about 40 feet while leading an ice-climb left Mark with a permanent scar on his head. His judo training in falling probably saved his life on this occasion, but he gave up the sport ...
Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis has done me much honour in inviting me to deliver these lectures.footnote 2 I am quite sure that my visit to Ljubljana at this juncture in your history will prove far ...
Sven Beckert has produced a fascinating and wide-ranging history of cotton, from its early appearance in household production in Asia thousands of years ago, via its modest debut in local exchanges, ...
The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a number of isolable units, but half a totality: the human species. Women are essential and ...