by Elisabetta Rizzo | Jun 2, 2020 | Text
by Patrick Levy As a philosopher who researches insomnia, I’m struck by how similar the lockdown experience is with lying awake through the night, waiting for either sleep to come or the new day to dawn. In particular, it is this warped relationship with time and the...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | May 1, 2020 | Text
by Dominic Smith Two transitional moments in Spielberg’s Jaws demand special attention. The first is when Richard Dreyfuss turns up as oceanographer Matt Hooper. In a film full of strong performances, he steals the show (opinion will be split on whether Robert...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | Apr 23, 2020 | Text
by Ashley Woodward Popular culture has already had more than its fair share of misrepresentations of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and his ideas, from the comic book superhero Superman to the‘Nietzscheans’ – a malevolent alien race...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | Apr 9, 2020 | Event, Featured event, Featured in Slider, featured news, Featured on Website, News
Dear All, in light of the current Covid-19 situation, we have made the decision to postpone the Critical Legal Conference that was due to be run between the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy and Law at the University of Dundee in September 2020. The...
by Elisabetta Rizzo | Apr 1, 2020 | Text
by Dominic Smith I wasn’t in the habit of noticing it at all: a small rectangular fridge magnet bearing a likeness of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, gifted to me by an eccentric member of the Hume Society many years ago…. It is...
