The final version of this review will be published in Political Studies Review, Volume 14 of the Journal, Issue 4, November 2016. A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 by Antonio Gramsci (ed. and trans. by Derek Boothman). London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 2014. This volume is a collection of the early letters of… Continue reading Review of A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 by Antonio Gramsci
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Review of The Companion to Raymond Aron
photo©www.erlingmandelmann.ch Forthcoming in Political Studies Review, Volume 15 of the Journal, Issue 1, February 2017. The Companion to Raymond Aron by Jose Colen and Elisabeth Dutartre-Michaut (eds). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. The Companion to Raymond Aron seeks to provide an overview of the works and ideas of the French sociologist, political thinker and commentator Raymond… Continue reading Review of The Companion to Raymond Aron
Reflections on feminism for the International Women’s Day
Today I listened to a special broadcast on the classical music radio channel. An orchestra of women played a concert for international women’s day. The presenter introduced the soloists and said that for the benefit of those listening to the concert on the radio, he’d like to add that the musicians tonight are “stunningly beautiful”,… Continue reading Reflections on feminism for the International Women’s Day
Political realism and history
Last month I participated in an Italian conference on political realism. A group of fifty-strong Italian academics and researchers, we spent three days, 8 hours per day, in a beautiful monastery in Perugia debating the meaning of political realism. The line-up was ambitious: we were each given 15 minutes to make our original and insightful… Continue reading Political realism and history
Reflections on history and theory
The first day of our Oxbridge Conference (oxbridge2013.wordpress.com) was an interesting and stimulating exchange of ideas not only between the two universities but also between two disciplines, Political Theory and History. Our aim was to bring together these two ways of thinking about the global. And I feel we did create a conversation between researchers… Continue reading Reflections on history and theory
Dr Or Rosenboim 