Anthony O’Hear: In 2011 it is hard not be disturbed Darwin’s casual reference to the elimination of endless numbers of lower races, and even more by the way this sort of thinking was taken up by his followers such as Haeckel and von Treitschke, who in turn influenced Hitler. Moreover the remark in question is all of a piece with the teaching of The Descent of Man, even if more forcefully expressed.
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THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
Conference: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art
University of Leeds, Thursday 28 June 2012. Roger Scruton, Jonathan Gilmore, Jenefer Robinson, Gordon Graham, others. For details: The Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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Peter Riley: Poetry Prize Culture and the Aberdeen Angus. | Denise Riley and the force of bereavement. | Poetry beyond the cults and enclaves.
Alan Wall: The Janus Face of Metaphor. | Clues and Labyrinths. | Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.
Keith Johnson: Lawrence Weiner's mythic waste basket.
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By Roger Berkowitz, Juliet du Boulay, Denis Boyles, Stan Carey, H.R. Haxton, Allen M. Hornblum, Alan Macfarlane, Anthony O'Hear, Andrew Sinclair, Harry Stein, Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, and many others. Free access.
· Hugh Chisholm
· Elliott Coleman
· Robert Coover
· Ethel Dilke
· Anthony Howell
· Ann Lauterbach
· Lawrence Markert
· Myra Sklarew
· Martin Sorrell
· William Stafford
· James Thomson [B.V.]
· Paul Verlaine
· Michelene Wandor
· Stephen Wiest
Occ. Notes...
A dilemma for educators:
Philosophy and the public impact.
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Michelene Wandor on Derek Walcott and the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Nick Lowe: the true-blue Basher shows up for a friend.
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