This universalized dialectic – the primacy of process over its constituent moments – is a critical achievement of the first ...

A response to Hillary Clinton.

Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

The modern bureaucratic state remains the paramount fount of criminal deterrence, surveillance and sanction, notwithstanding claims of devolution, privatization and ‘governmentalization’.footnote 1 ...

Turning to fiction, On the Edge examines the representation of China’s migrant workers in different literary genres. Hillenbrand analyses a seemingly marginal state-endorsed magazine, the bi-monthly ...

This golden age for Western governing elites nevertheless bred potential problems for their class rule. First, the very transformation of asset wealth on which the new elite floated threatened to ...

Once the cultural and political beacon of the Arab world, Cairo is now close to becoming the region’s social sump. The population of this megalopolis has swollen to an estimated 17 million, more than ...

For the next fifty years, ‘Burma Proper’ was developed as an administrative adjunct to British India. Many hundreds of thousands of Indian immigrants, as well as Christianized Karens and Anglo-Burmans ...

Earlier this summer, Mongolian protesters used old tyres to block the highway across the Gobi Desert from the vast Rio Tinto copper mine at Oyu Tolgoi, halting the stream of trucks that carry copper ...

‘Aesthetic’ is commonly defined (see, for example, the Oxford English Dictionary) as having three meanings: (a) received by the senses; (b) referring to beauty; and (c) of superior taste. The last ...

John Bayley: Tolstoy and the Novel. Chatto & Windus. 35s. It would be fair to say that the theoretical framework of Tolstoy and the Novel is not materially different from Bayley’s early book The ...