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Open Access 25-04-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Social Theory and Transgender: Beyond Polarization

This paper argues that social theory can cast light on some of the main themes in current debates about trans issues. It considers four such themes: social classification and social control; tensions between individual and group rights; access to …

Author:
Charles Turner
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Open Access 25-04-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Poverty and the Rise and Fall of the Welfare State in Britain, 1900 to the Present

Poverty in the UK has recently risen to levels and created conditions not seen since c.1900. Then, the poverty revealed in major surveys by Booth and Rowntree created shock and proposals for change leading to the first measures of what became the …

Author:
Patricia Thane
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Open Access 19-04-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Stairway to Heaven: LGBTQ+ Gatherings as Civil-Religious Rituals

This paper applies ritual theory to study public LGBTQ+ gatherings, including Pride parades, silent vigils, and commemorative litanies. The analysis of public LGBTQ+ rituals has often focussed on Pride parades and their carnivalistic exuberance.

Authors:
Stefan Schwarzkopf, Sine Nørholm Just, Jannick Friis Christensen
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Open Access 12-04-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Isaiah Berlin and Feminism: Liberty and Value Pluralism

Isaiah Berlin’s account of freedom is more useful for feminists than is generally recognized, especially when seen in the context of his value pluralism. Focusing on the work of Nancy Hirschmann and Sharon Krause, I argue, first, that Berlin’s …

Author:
George Crowder
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11-04-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Aurelian Craiutu, Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals
Cambridge University Press, 2023, 260 pp., ISBN: ‎978-1108494953
Author:
Greg Berman

10-04-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Karl Schlögel, Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland
Reaktion Books, 2022, 288 pp., ISBN: 978-1789146776
Author:
Uilleam Blacker

08-04-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Robert Darnton, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris 1748–1780
Author:
Peter M. Jones

08-04-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Gerd Gigerenzer, How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
Penguin, 2023, 311 pp., ISBN: 978-0-141-99504-5
Author:
Michael Laver

25-03-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, & Linda Woodhead, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age
University of Chicago Press, 2021, 288 pp. ISBN: ‎978-0226791531
Author:
Kevin Power

22-03-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp. ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Alan Thomas

22-03-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Jed Esty, The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits
Stanford University Press, 2022, 146 pp., ISBN: 978-1503633315
Author:
Kevin Power

Open Access 07-03-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The Voice of the People: Populism and Donald Trump’s Use of Informal Voice

Many studies have examined characteristic verbal aspects of Donald J. Trump’s political communication, from his authoritarian rhetoric to his preference for short words and simple sentences, as expressions of his populism. This article focuses on …

Author:
Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen
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01-03-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Christopher Janaway, Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will to Life
Author:
Julian Young

27-02-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Point-n-Kill: Label Metaphors in Heterosexual Peer Networks in Nigeria

Male and female partners in heterosexual peer networks in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, south-eastern Nigeria, use reciprocal label metaphors to characterize each other in negative (or positive) ways. This article explores how sexual …

Author:
Eyo O. Mensah

21-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
Oxford University Press, 2023. 72 pp. ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Simon Blackburn

21-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Andrew Gamble, After Brexit and Other Essays
Bristol University Press, 2021, pp. 293, ISBN: 981-1-5292-1709-4
Author:
Pat Thane

13-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Paul Bloomfield

07-02-2024 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Socrates’ Critique of Writing

This essay discusses the critique of writing that Socrates presents in Plato’s Phaedrus. It argues that because he conceives of writing as a kind of technology (in Greek, a technê), this passage prefigures many of the conversations now taking …

Author:
David Roochnik

06-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author:
Paul Seabright

05-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: ‎978-0197690888
Author:
Richard Kraut
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