In The Human Paradox: Worlds Apart in a Connected World, author Frank Gaffikin probes
widely and meticulously into our past and present to analyse the connections between the …

How might we reinvent the humanities? This is the question at the heart of this provocative
volume. It is a difficult mission and definitely one which needs to be addressed with …

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life's paradoxes. But what if these
attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life? Contrary to the supposedly sublime linear …

This chapter considers some of the new lines of enquiry, arguing that a more in-depth
integration of political economy would enhance their analyses of unequal power relations …

In this paper I propose that underlying the human propensity to conflict is a primordial,
unconscious terror of difference. Further, there are many social science disciplines that try to …

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the
basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could …

Written while the pandemic was still a key issue, this article tries to imagine the post-
pandemic from different perspectives, and first of all in distinct temporalities. A question …

In this article the positive lessons from the coronavirus pandemic are examined, focusing on
the intensive activities of solidarity at the local, national, and transnational levels, the …

As the celebratory mood of global interconnectedness wears thinner and thinner, the
compression of space-time makes more apparent that we share across the planet an …

Plucked from a humble nomad family to become the leader of one of Tibet's oldest Buddhist
lineages, the young Seventeenth Karmapa draws on timeless values to create an urgent …