Author: Guest Author

A life with Wittgenstein

7 April 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Peter Hacker, author of A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein Wittgenstein studies flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, as philosophers struggled with the interpretation of his two great masterpieces, the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus and the Philosophical Investigations. Many of...

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Some thoughts on the writing of Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by Vijay Mishra

11 December 2023 Guest Post

I came to  this book very much towards the end of my academic career. For many years, I  had written on  the Indian diaspora with, where possible, an emphasis on the old sugar plantation diaspora that began with the movement of coolies to work as indentured labourers in the nineteenth...

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Reinventing Mary Wollstonecraft for the twenty-first century by Brenda Ayres

3 December 2023 Guest Post

In 2017, I wrote Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, identifying the disparities between 18 major biographies that reinvented Mary Wollstonecraft with each retelling of her life. In that book, I alluded to 16 other biographies as well with their diverging views on Wollstonecraft. To date, there are...

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Reflections on Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature by way of an imagined interview by Vijay Mishra

6 November 2023 Author Interviews

1.Why this book? Only 400,000 people worldwide speak Fiji Hindi. Of that number, less than half read the Devanagari (Sanskrit) script in which this language is written. There was then a challenge: How to expose this language to a wider readership? I chose to engage with the question of exposure...

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Clarence Thomas Among the Bohemians by Robert Holton

17 October 2023 Guest Post

Recent news reports about the relationship between conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and ultra-wealthy conservative activists such as billionaires Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers have revealed many interesting details and raised a number of questions, but one of the most peculiar aspects involves their attendance at the...

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Caroline Norton’s ‘Love in “the World”‘

26 September 2023 Guest Post

Now known chiefly for her dramatic life story and reforms of married women’s child custody and property legislation (see Antonia Fraser’s biography, The Case of the Married Woman and Diane Atkinson’s The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton), Caroline Norton was celebrated in her own day chiefly as a novelist, poet,...

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275 years later by W. B. Allen

21 September 2023 Guest Post

The year 1748 witnessed the publication of the landmark Spirit of the Laws by French philosopher Charles Montesquieu. That work bequeathed the separation of powers and checks and balances to the modern world – fundamental concepts that shaped the Constitution of the United States. Spirit of the Laws contained this...

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Open innovation versus techno-nationalism by Kenneth A. Reinert

6 August 2023 Guest Post

Collaboration between multinational enterprises (MNEs), as well as between MNEs and research institutions of various kinds, is an active area of international business research and, more importantly, practice. There is a good deal of evidence that these activities help to spur innovation even among large firms. Indeed, technological development is...

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Soft power and all the tools of statecraft by Dr. Geoff Heriot

20 April 2023 Guest Post

No longer geographically remote from the principal theatres of great power confrontation, Australia is adapting to the uncomfortable possibility of being a ‘front line state’. Increasingly, foreign policy analysts call on the government to apply an ‘all tools of statecraft’ approach to the nation’s multi-dimensional threat environment, especially across the...

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African memoirs and cultural representations: narrating traditions by Toyin Falola

7 March 2023 Author Interviews

1. What is your main interest or what aroused your curiosity about contemporary memoirs, particularly in West Africa? I became interested in delving into the study of this area when I completed a part of my research for one of my books on auto-ethnography a few years ago. I found...

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