Kaveh Yazdani, in India, Modernity and the Great Divergence, provides the readers with a case study of Mysore and Gujarat to explain why precolonial India could not experience an economic take-off similar to the one that happened in western Europe.
Read MoreI can never go back and know what, as an infant, I first felt, what my original sensations were, nor can I recapture the initial experience of moving, of being touched
Read MoreAccording to correspondence between Rowland Hazard and his cousin, he had daily sessions with Jung in Zürich over several months, and stopped drinking…
Read MoreThe idea of Christus medicus, Christ the Physician, is a commonplace in late medieval religious texts. In Soul-Health: Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England, Daniel McCann…
Read MoreWhitman needed not a mere celebrity endorsement, not just an appreciative aesthete, but a lover in Russia; a passionate, devoted reader who would accept him without judgment.
Read MoreWe are fast approaching a point where one third of the global population will play video games on a regular basis. As such, video gaming ought to become a serious object of philosophy…
Read MoreWhen the headmaster of Stowe argued that the widening participation measures to raise the proportion of state school students were “social engineering”…
Read MoreLiving in the Canadian Rockies allows me ample opportunities to get out into nature. In an hour outside the city, I can be within wilderness, with no cellphone reception and no other humans.
Read MoreTen thousand years ago, in the Neolithic period, before human beings began making pottery, we were playing games on flat stone boards drilled with two or more rows of holes…
Read MoreThe annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) convention is being held this coming week in my home town of Portland, Oregon.
Read MoreDuring the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, San Francisco had the popular reputation as a sexually liberal wonderland and an international city. At the same time, during the era of increasing nativism and immigration exclusion…
Read MoreReaders will remember that in chapter 20 of Part I of Don Quixote Sancho relieves himself while in close proximity to his master…
Read MoreI came to philosophy bursting with things to say. Somewhere along the way, that changed…
Read MoreSo spoke a fairy bestowing a gift upon an infant Vernon Lee in a short story published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1915. The tale, resembling that of Sleeping Beauty…
Read MoreOn January 8, 2019, in a prime-time address from the oval office, President Donald J. Trump argued that the existence of a “humanitarian crisis” required the funding of a wall on the US-Mexico border.
Read MoreThe war in Afghanistan is now in its seventeenth year and, despite recent attempts to broker a lasting peace, the fight against the Taliban keeps dragging on.
Read MoreAn essential fact about the Hebrew Bible is that most of its narrative prose as well as its poetry manifests a high order of sophisticated literary fashioning.
Read MoreIt is the nature of Marie Kondo’s attraction to Westerners that gives me pause. This registers most powerfully for me when…
Read MoreI had a little conversation with Bryan Alexander over First Man and our capacity for experience. It came down to this (Bryan): “Yes, there’s a cultural pattern here, an arc from dread/possibility to suburbs.
Read MoreHuman Rights after Hitler describes the rise and fall of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC). But author Dan Plesch did not write this book…
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