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Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential (2020)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2020). Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential. In Educational Ills and the (Im)possibility of Utopia (26-38). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025849-4

My objective in this paper is to write a pharmacology of the university by thinking about its relationship to systemic stupidity, intelligence, and the possibility of becoming. Starting with an exploration of the contemporary dystopia of drive-based... Read More about Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential.

The Evolution of British Gerontology: Personal Perspectives and Historical Developments (2020)
Book Chapter
(2020). The Evolution of British Gerontology: Personal Perspectives and Historical Developments. In The Evolution of British Gerontology: Personal Perspectives and Historical Developments

Half a century of UK gerontology research, theory, policy and practice are under the spotlight in this landmark critical review of the subject that places the country’s achievements in an international context. Drawing on the archives of the British... Read More about The Evolution of British Gerontology: Personal Perspectives and Historical Developments.

‘This isn’t just a case of taking someone to the hospital’: Police approaches and management of situations involving persons with mental ill health in the custody suite and beyond (2020)
Book Chapter
Weston, S., & Trebilcock, J. (in press). ‘This isn’t just a case of taking someone to the hospital’: Police approaches and management of situations involving persons with mental ill health in the custody suite and beyond. In Policing and Mental Health: Theory, Policy and Practice. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470882-12

Mental health is now acknowledged as the ‘core business of policing’ (Adebowale, 2013, p. °6), with a third of people in police custody estimated to have some form of mental health problem (Leese and Russell, 2017). While the Police and Crime Act 201... Read More about ‘This isn’t just a case of taking someone to the hospital’: Police approaches and management of situations involving persons with mental ill health in the custody suite and beyond.

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (2020)
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Tartaglia, J. (2020). Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. In A companion to Rorty (77-99). (1). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118972199.ch5

This essay comprises an overview of the plot to Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, followed by a more detailed examination of the three parts of the book. It begins by showing the importance of metaphilosophy to Rorty's project, while expla... Read More about Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.

Sartre and the transcendental tradition 1 (2020)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2020). Sartre and the transcendental tradition 1. In S. Baiasu (Ed.), The Sartrean Mind (38-51). (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315100500-2

This chapter focuses on the extent to which J. P. Sartre endorses significant claim in the context of several interpretations in the literature. An evaluation of those interpretations will enable us to determine more precisely Sartre’s place within t... Read More about Sartre and the transcendental tradition 1.

The libertine (2020)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2020). The libertine. In Crime, Harm and Consumerism (39-53). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429424472-4

My objective in this chapter is to explore the moment where crime, harm, and the consumer experience meet through the figure of the libertine. In order to develop my reading of this figure, I start by focusing on the work of the Marquis de Sade, and... Read More about The libertine.

Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials (2019)
Book Chapter
Amietta. (2019). Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials. In Everyday Justice Law, Ethnography, Injustice (161 - 181). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763530.010

Lay participation in state judicial procedures has been championed, in Argentina and elsewhere, as embodying new ways of making justice – imbued with the experiences and sentiments of ordinary people and carrying into courthouses the quotidien’s roma... Read More about Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials.

Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities (2019)
Book Chapter
Martens. (2019). Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities. In What is Food?: Researching a topic with many meanings (11-30)

In 2015 and 2016, we took what is a rare opportunity in the social sciences to re-visit the study ‘Eating Out’, which was first conducted in 1995 (Warde and Martens, 2000). This study explored from the point of view of diners the increasingly popular... Read More about Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities.

The architecture of authoritarian luxury (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. The architecture of authoritarian luxury. In The Third Realm of Luxury (47-66). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350062801.0007

Mark Featherstone In his Origin of German Tragic Drama (2009) , Walter Benjamin reflects upon the condition of tyranny in early modern German drama. The king sits uncomfortably upon his throne. The world is a maelstrom of events, and he is crippled b... Read More about The architecture of authoritarian luxury.

French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK. In I. Goh (Ed.), French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809287

In this chapter I begin by exploring the impact of Paul Virilio’s thought upon British academia from the 1980s through the 1990s to the contemporary. Following this work, I move on to show how Virilio’s dromology can shed light on the history and pre... Read More about French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK.