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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Judgements of the ‘interesting’ dominate critical assessments of contemporary art, but what is the logical structure of these ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, new states have been emerging in fast-moving sequence—whether through the secession of formerly ‘autonomous’ territories, or through the reunification of ...
The term ‘ethnic cleansing’ has acquired general currency with the violent conflicts between communities in the contemporary Balkans. It is often seen as a hateful yet characteristically modern ...