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The Magic of Plants and Animals (2025)
Book Chapter
Parish, J., & Lowell, J. (in press). The Magic of Plants and Animals. In Cultural History of Magic (20). Bloomsbury

Contemporary Disunity Among Congressional Republicans (2025)
Book Chapter
Herbert, J. (in press). Contemporary Disunity Among Congressional Republicans. In The Changing Character of the American Right, Volume II. (1). London: Palgrave Macmillan

From The Changing Character of the American Right, Volume II
Edited By, Joel D. Aberbach, Bruce E. Cain, Desmond King & Gillian Peele

While scholarship on the US Congress emphasizes increasing levels of party unity in the late 20th and early 21st... Read More about Contemporary Disunity Among Congressional Republicans.

“Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art (2024)
Book Chapter
Leach, S. (2024). “Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art. . Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337021.014

In his chapter on “Art” in Roman Britain and the English Settlements, Collingwood attempts to explain the revival of Celtic art that occurred in Britain after a period of Roman art of almost four hundred years. In his Autobiography he declared this w... Read More about “Reconsidering Questions of Principle”: Collingwood and the Revival of Celtic Art.

Shirley Williams: Breaking the Mould? (2024)
Book Chapter
Parr, H. Shirley Williams: Breaking the Mould?. In The Labour Party and European Integration: A Biographical Approach. Bristol: Bristol University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Conway's World Soul and Monism (2024)
Book Chapter
Head, J. (2024). Conway's World Soul and Monism. In New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy (61-77). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62902-0_5

This paper considers the place of the ‘Middle Nature’ in Anne Conway’s philosophy, as a kind of ‘World Soul’-type figure that is both intimately present in all things in nature and acts as a mediator between God and creation. It is argued that consid... Read More about Conway's World Soul and Monism.

Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene (2024)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2024). Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene. In Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds (3-15). London: Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53491-1_1

My objective in this chapter is to develop a Freudian-Heideggerian understanding of the concept of utopia that conceives of the impulse to imagine ideal societies in terms of a modern tendency to both think about possible futures and create new world... Read More about Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene.

Kant's Right as Normatively Independent: One Strategy Considered and Rejected (2024)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (in press). Kant's Right as Normatively Independent: One Strategy Considered and Rejected. In Law and Morality in Kant (1-15). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

The question of how politics and ethics are supposed to connect, if at all, in our societies is an important one, especially in the context of today’s socio-economic and geo-political challenges. Not surprisingly, commentators have tried to find an a... Read More about Kant's Right as Normatively Independent: One Strategy Considered and Rejected.

Assemblies and the Courts (2024)
Book Chapter
Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2024). Assemblies and the Courts. In The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197674871.013.26

To what extent is the protest trial a threat or an opportunity to protesters? This chapter argues that it is both. Trials potentially provide a site of resistance and the means for ongoing struggle and contestation, while simultaneously threatening t... Read More about Assemblies and the Courts.

Britain as a European nation state (2024)
Book Chapter
Parr, H. Britain as a European nation state. In Cambridge History of Modern Britain, 1900- the present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge (2023)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2023). To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge. In P.F. Strawson and His Legacy. In Audun Bengtson, Benjamin De Mesel and Sybren Heyndels (eds.) (192-211). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858474.003.0010

How should one respond to scepticism? Should one seek to refute it? Or should scepticism be ignored? This chapter explores four responses to scepticism: that of ambitious, truth-directed transcendental arguments; that of modest transcendental argumen... Read More about To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge.

Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion (2023)
Book Chapter
Head, J. (2023). Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion. In The Schopenhauerian Mind. (1). Routledge

This chapter provides an overview of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of religion, highlighting its rather ambiguous treatment in scattered remarks throughout his corpus. The discussion begins by considering Schopenhauer’s account of the source of religion... Read More about Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion.

26. Security and everyday life in uncertain times (2023)
Book Chapter
Loader, I., Sparks, R., Bradford, B., Casey, R., Girling, E., & Polanska, G. (2023). 26. Security and everyday life in uncertain times. . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198860914.003.0026

What crimes and security concerns trouble differently-situated groups of people today? What demands for action do these prompt from different authorities? To what extent are contemporary insecurities mediated through people’s sense of place and atten... Read More about 26. Security and everyday life in uncertain times.

Chatham House and the Challenges of Europe (2023)
Book Chapter
Parr, H. Chatham House and the Challenges of Europe. In Chatham House: Its People and its influence, 1920 to the present day. Manuscript submitted for publication