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The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of consciousness itself. After those changes came a period of chaotic upheaval, out...

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Cities are often described as inherently more progressive and cosmopolitan than nation states. But is this true, and if yes, why?

Standing Group on Political Concepts (SGPC) Online Lecture Series

An important part of teaching political theory and philosophy involves the designing of curricula, programmes and modules. However, in doing so, political theorists may face any number of challenges a...

Alt: Wormtongue whispers in King Théoden’s ear.

Experiencing the present (and persistent) crisis

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits

Everyone Hates Elon, a protest group, placed He’s Sweating Now — taken after King’s brother spent 11 hours in custody — in the Paris museum

Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit

In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature

A book talk with Günther Anders’ translator Dr Christopher Mülle

Notes from America

The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

He believes immigration threatens Western civilization itself, echoing the same xenophobia once directed at his own ancestors

One of the main lessons of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism is that we must actively think in the now, and try to grasp new realities on their own terms.

And that great gospel jest called rock and roll

Modern Japanese Political Thought as a Resource for Comparative Political Theory

The Birth of Sensory Power

Table of contents for Journal of International Political Theory, 21, 3