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The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference', Christine Battersby
The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference by Christine Battersby, Routledge 2007
This is one of trilogy of monographs by Battersby on feminist aesthetics and metaphysics. The question of the sublime is one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. Stretching back to the 18th century, its key theorists included Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant ...
The Newsnight Interview with Quassim Cassam
Professor Quassim Cassam appears on Newsnight with Emily Maitlis. The clip highlights how philosophical thinking can have application to real world problems and issues - in this case, the moral obligations of The Opposition in a time of national crisis.
Interesting anecdote: "If you do live TV in the late evening you are certain to get a bad night's sleep!"鈥��...
Exremism, Quassim Cassam
Book 'Extremism,A Philosophical Analysis', by Quassim Cassam, Routledge, 2021
This is the first philosophy book dedicated to analysing extremism.
Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century. It remains an intractable and poorly understood problem.
Interesting fact: "Violent extremists, also known as terrorists, rarely use grenades!" ...