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Hutcheson in the History of Rights | Journal of Scottish Philosophy
Francis Hutcheson's An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, published in 1725, arguably contains the first broadly utilitarian theory of rights ever formulated. In this essa...
1980 - IASH at 50
Professor David Daiches is appointed Honorary Director of the Institute. Professor Peter Jones is appointed Deputy Director.
2014 - IASH at 50
Professor Jo Shaw is appointed Director. She is also awarded the Chancellor's Award for Research in a formal ceremony at Holyrood Palace.
Naming a genus for William Darlington: a case study in botanical eponymy | Archives of Natural History
In 1853, the American botanist John Torrey described a new genus of pitcher plant, naming it Darlingtonia (Sarraceniaceae). The plant had been collected near Mount Shasta in California in 1841 by W...
Broken Bond: Skyfall and the British Identity Crisis | Journal of British Cinema and Television
This article argues that Skyfall (2012) was influenced by and responded to the contemporary debate over the future of the British Union and the referendum on Scottish independence. This is most evi...
The Myth of Exile and Return: Competing Biblical, Christian, Zionist and Palestinian TheologiesIlan Pappe, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (London: Verso, 2014). Pp.346. Hardback. ISBN-13: 978-1844678563.Alain Epp Weaver, Mapping Exile
Published in print: November 2014. Dr Michael Nathanson. Independent Scholar San Jose California, USASelect the format you want to export the citations of this publication.
‘I long to get together with all of you …’: A Letter from Sabina Spielrein-Scheftel (Rostov-on-Don) to Max Eitingon, 24 AUGUST 1927 | Psychoanalysis and History
Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942), Russian-Jewish pioneer of psychoanalysis, was highly esteemed by Sigmund Freud, and later by young left-wing analysts like Otto Fenichel, for being a creative thinker ...
Post-Socialist ‘Cancel Culture’? The Contested Politics of Memory in Post-Socialist Romania | Cultural History
With the global rise of the social movements such as the BLM driven by quests for racial justice and symbolic reparations, monuments and street names have become objects of ideological contention. ...
Deleuze, Whitehead, and the ‘Beautiful Soul’ | Deleuze and Guattari Studies
This paper explores one means of connection between Whitehead and Deleuze through an investigation into the figure of the ‘beautiful soul’. I first examine Deleuze's claim that a philosophy of diff...
Notes on Contributors | Gothic Studies
Dr Curtis Runstedler recently completed his PhD in Medieval Literature at Durham University. ... Dr Lisa Nevárez is Professor of English at Siena College (New York, USA).