Last month I interviewed the philosopher Roger Scruton – the interview is on YouTube, above. If you want to download it as an MP3 just copy the URL and take it here. The interview was inspired by this interesting article which Roger wrote for Aeon Magazine, in which he warned that modern culture was being Read more…
Friday, 8 February 2013
Monday, 13 February 2012
This week, I’m going to do some posts on love, to consider and carry ourselves through Valentine’s Day. The first post is a short talk by Roman Krznaric. Roman was our speaker at the London Philosophy Club last week (and an excellent speaker at that). He’s an interesting figure in both the contemporary history of Read more…
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Over at the Centre for the History of the Emotions blog, we’re holding a Shame Week, in which various historians of the emotions consider shame. Today, Katherine Angel of Warwick University has posted an excellent review of the Steve McQueen film, Shame. She loves the film, but wonders why Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender have, Read more…
Friday, 6 January 2012
Over at the Centre for the History of the Emotions blog, my former tutor, the wonderful Lesel Dawson, reviews Simon May’s Love: A History. My favourite passage: As May’s book makes clear, a number of traditions require that the lover achieve psychic distance from the beloved in order to attain higher goals. Looking across various Read more…
Friday, 4 March 2011
Ever seen a ghost? A quarter of Brits say they have, up from 7% in the 1950s. Our experience of the spooky is apparently on the rise. Yet modern psychology has typically pushed such experiences to the margins. The profession seems embarrassed, in its eagerness to establish itself as a respectable science, that some of Read more…