Historian on the Edge

Today, comes from Martha Nussbaum's blurb for the back of the updated edition of Stanley Cavell,  Must we mean what we say? '[N]ow, ...

In the latest in our series of latter-day koans for the (dys)functioning twenty-first-century historian, I offer the following for you to po...

Even the sincere black man (le Noir) is a slave of the past.  However, I am a man, and in that sense the Peloponnesian War is as much mine a...

Today, to celebrate the fact that I finally finished it a couple of weeks ago (and was rather less than overwhelmed by it!), the 'though...

Today comes from my philosophical hero, Simon Critchley, from an interview in How to Stop Living and Start Worrying , p.114: We're sitti...

Today's thought comes from Derrick May and can be found here .  I've loved this ever since I first heard it sampled on E-Z Rollers...

Today's rather pointed thought comes from A. Gouldner's The Coming crisis of Western Sociology  (London, 1970), p.503: The man who c...

... which today comes from ever-popular chirpy chappie, Berthold Brecht: "What is robbing a bank compared to founding one?" Or, as...

Listen to the Today Programme and you'll start the day in a rage.  That inspires you to fight back, raises the blood pressure and gener...