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Free new Excel-based memorisation aid and self-tester
As a spin-off from Vocab Book I have written a memorisation aid called Memorise It. Here is the blurb: Memorise It is a free Excel-based memory tool that helps you to remember facts, poetry, lines for a play, or any other text you need to commit to memory. Test yourself on your memory texts in
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Powerful and fully-featured Excel-based vocabulary learning tool
I have written an Excel workbook to help university students, school pupils and the rest of us to organise, learn and test knowledge of vocabulary and phrases in sixteen languages. It sits alongside its sister workbooks Memorise It and Revision Aid (for more information about the suite of workbooks, see here). Here is the blurb:
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Lu Xun, anthropophagism and 1950s sci-fi
One of the most striking motifs of ‘A Madman’s Diary’ is the anthropophagism that is first hinted at and then becomes a central obsession of the diarist. One of the first questions this raises is: “For what is eating people a metaphor in this text?”, assuming of course that it is to be read metaphorically.
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Review of Rancière Now: Current Perspectives on Jacques Rancière
My review of Rancière Now: Current Perspectives on Jacques Rancière has been published in French Studies. You can find the full text and PDF versions on the French Studies website.
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Emma Wilson’s address from the book launch of Amaleena Damlé’s The Becoming of the Body
I am delighted to make available the address given by Emma Wilson at the launch of the latest volume in the Crosscurrents series, Amaleena Damlé‘s The Becoming of the Body. The launch took place at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, on 20 June this year as part of the “Celebrating Publications in
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New review of Difficult Atheism at Marx and Philosophy
Over at Marx&Philosophy, Bryan Cooke (whom I had the pleasure of meeting at last year’s Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy conference) has posted a review of Difficult Atheism. The opening paragraph gives a flavour of the review’s tone and also of Bryan’s style, which, for all the right reasons, is best left undescribed: Christopher Watkin’s
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Difficult Atheism now available on kindle in the US and UK
Difficult Atheism now on kindle in the US and UK (with real page numbers!) For those of a more traditional disposition, the paperback edition is still reassuringly present on amazon.co.uk.
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Review of Difficult Atheism in The Heythrop Journal
A new review of my Difficult Atheism has just been published in The Heythrop Journal 55:4 (2014): 755-756. Here is the final paragraph, in which the reviewer (Dane Neufeld of Wycliffe College, Toronto) sums up both his commendation of, and reservation about, the book: Difficult Atheism is a challenging read but the difficulty of the
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Paul Ricoeur and the Autonomy of Philosophy: A Reappraisal
My article “Ricœur and the Autonomy of Philosophy: A Reappraisal” has just been published online in Philosophy Today. Abstract: Paul Ricœur repeatedly maintained that his philosophical reflection was autonomous from theological influence. Those who seek to contest this view have hitherto sought to deny the autonomy of philosophy from theology, but this article makes a