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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The history of the present is replete with the language of crisis, which has infiltrated various
domains including the political, economic, social, environmental, and moral. Those various …

The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional
novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one's …

A leading environmental and political commentator draws a roadmap towards new politics—
offering a rallying cry for a new vision of what a 'good'society can be—in this “dazzling …

Political science, international relations, law, and ethics. In doing so, he tackles the
challenging question of human behavior. Since we humans have initiative and can …

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 …