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Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026): Dialogue, rationality and humanity

Human beings are ineluctably social, and every action they perform that is social, including the transformation of nature so they can live, is coordinated through language. Our lives rest upon our faculty for dialogue, for reaching agreement on what is … Continue reading

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‘A devout but nearly silent listener’: dialogue, sociability, and Promethean individualism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)

My article, ‘”A devout but nearly silent listener”: dialogue, sociability, and Promethean individualism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)’, has been published in The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 16 (Autumn 2017) alongside other excellent articles. Here’s a brief … Continue reading

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