Alex Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3917356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1200-1962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1929 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“How do you know you’re safe at school? When I’m not there”. Perspectives of autistic young people and school staff from one secondary school about attendance struggles and who is accountable for chan…
School non-attendance became an international phenomenon post-pandemic with many schools, regardless of intake or location, experiencing increases in pupils struggling to attend. However, pre-pandemic data highlight that non-attendance of autistic students was already a significant issue and increased post-pandemic. Indeed, autistic students continue to be overrepresented in non-attendance figures and research is needed to understand more about t…
Shadowing Shakespeare: Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha (1980) and William Shakespeare’s English History Plays (c. 1591–98)
In his 1980 film Kagemusha or Shadow Warrior , Akira Kurosawa presents the sixteenth-century Takeda clan engaging a lower-class thief to impersonate their recently deceased leader, Takeda Shingen. I examine Kagemusha as a critical engagement with Shakespeare’s English history plays and ‘shadow’ counterpart to Kurosawa’s trilogy of Shakespeare adaptations, Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960) and Ran (1985). In keeping with Shakespear…
Four Mīmāṃsā Views Concerning the Self’s Perception of Itself
British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia
British Romanticism in Asia, 1820–1950: Modernity, Tradition, and Transformation in India and East Asia
Who Am I? The Self/Subject According to Psychoanalytic Theory
The article argues that the importation into psychoanalytic theory of the terms “self” and “subject” is neither true to Freud’s intentions, nor necessary, nor helpful. Having observed how Freud undermined these concepts in both his Topographical Model and Structural Model, the article turns to the position of Ogden. Two of his contributions masterfully deconstruct the concept of “the subject” through a selection of positions advocated by Freud, K…
The Self as a Dynamic Constant. Rāmakaṇṭha’s Middle Ground Between a Naiyāyika Eternal Self-Substance and a Buddhist Stream of Consciousness-Moments
Light as an Analogy for Cognition in Buddhist Idealism (Vijñānavāda)
Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Elaboration of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana), and How it Differs from Dharmakīrti’s Exposition of the Concept
Self-deception and Survival: Mental Coping Strategies on the Western Front, 1914-18
This article reinvestigates German and British soldiers’ impressive resilience during the first world war. Rather than following previous historiography’s societal and military-institutional approaches, it focuses on combatants’ psychology. Men coped overwhelmingly successfully by failing to recognize fully the front’s disempowering and dangerous nature. Fears were repressed or minimized with black humour. Through religion and superstition, imagi…
For Kaiser and Reich: The Identity and Fate of the German Volunteers, 1914-1918
Historiography on the volunteers has maintained that most were young, aggressive, ‘war enthused’ men from the Wilhelmine educated elite, who quickly became disillusioned or broke down when faced with war’s ghastly realities. By analysing a sample of 2584 volunteers from 36 units, examining unpublished letters and diaries, and studying the volunteers’ battle performance, this article questions these beliefs. It argues that in fact volunteers came …
Origin and Growth of Journalism Among Europeans
HOWEVER true it may be that the Englishman wherever he goes in the world seeks out a site for a golf course, his passion for starting a newspaper has endured longer and is as strong now as ever it was. Hence the very active developments of journalism in a town like Karachi, the newest of the big Indian ports. The story of British journalism in India traces back almost as far as that of regular government by the British, although it naturally does…
Self-deception and Survival: Mental Coping Strategies on the Western Front, 1914-18
This article reinvestigates German and British soldiers’ impressive resilience during the first world war. Rather than following previous historiography’s societal and military-institutional approaches, it focuses on combatants’ psychology. Men coped overwhelmingly successfully by failing to recognize fully the front’s disempowering and dangerous nature. Fears were repressed or minimized with black humour. Through religion and superstition, imagi…
Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Elaboration of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana), and How it Differs from Dharmakīrti’s Exposition of the Concept
Light as an Analogy for Cognition in Buddhist Idealism (Vijñānavāda)
For Kaiser and Reich: The Identity and Fate of the German Volunteers, 1914-1918
Historiography on the volunteers has maintained that most were young, aggressive, ‘war enthused’ men from the Wilhelmine educated elite, who quickly became disillusioned or broke down when faced with war’s ghastly realities. By analysing a sample of 2584 volunteers from 36 units, examining unpublished letters and diaries, and studying the volunteers’ battle performance, this article questions these beliefs. It argues that in fact volunteers came …
Four Mīmāṃsā Views Concerning the Self’s Perception of Itself
Origin and Growth of Journalism Among Europeans
HOWEVER true it may be that the Englishman wherever he goes in the world seeks out a site for a golf course, his passion for starting a newspaper has endured longer and is as strong now as ever it was. Hence the very active developments of journalism in a town like Karachi, the newest of the big Indian ports. The story of British journalism in India traces back almost as far as that of regular government by the British, although it naturally does…
Origin and Growth of Journalism Among Europeans
HOWEVER true it may be that the Englishman wherever he goes in the world seeks out a site for a golf course, his passion for starting a newspaper has endured longer and is as strong now as ever it was. Hence the very active developments of journalism in a town like Karachi, the newest of the big Indian ports. The story of British journalism in India traces back almost as far as that of regular government by the British, although it naturally does…
For Kaiser and Reich: The Identity and Fate of the German Volunteers, 1914-1918
Historiography on the volunteers has maintained that most were young, aggressive, ‘war enthused’ men from the Wilhelmine educated elite, who quickly became disillusioned or broke down when faced with war’s ghastly realities. By analysing a sample of 2584 volunteers from 36 units, examining unpublished letters and diaries, and studying the volunteers’ battle performance, this article questions these beliefs. It argues that in fact volunteers came …
Self-deception and Survival: Mental Coping Strategies on the Western Front, 1914-18
This article reinvestigates German and British soldiers’ impressive resilience during the first world war. Rather than following previous historiography’s societal and military-institutional approaches, it focuses on combatants’ psychology. Men coped overwhelmingly successfully by failing to recognize fully the front’s disempowering and dangerous nature. Fears were repressed or minimized with black humour. Through religion and superstition, imagi…
Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Elaboration of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana), and How it Differs from Dharmakīrti’s Exposition of the Concept
Light as an Analogy for Cognition in Buddhist Idealism (Vijñānavāda)
Who Am I? The Self/Subject According to Psychoanalytic Theory
The article argues that the importation into psychoanalytic theory of the terms “self” and “subject” is neither true to Freud’s intentions, nor necessary, nor helpful. Having observed how Freud undermined these concepts in both his Topographical Model and Structural Model, the article turns to the position of Ogden. Two of his contributions masterfully deconstruct the concept of “the subject” through a selection of positions advocated by Freud, K…
The Self as a Dynamic Constant. Rāmakaṇṭha’s Middle Ground Between a Naiyāyika Eternal Self-Substance and a Buddhist Stream of Consciousness-Moments
British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia
British Romanticism in Asia, 1820–1950: Modernity, Tradition, and Transformation in India and East Asia
Four Mīmāṃsā Views Concerning the Self’s Perception of Itself
Shadowing Shakespeare: Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha (1980) and William Shakespeare’s English History Plays (c. 1591–98)
In his 1980 film Kagemusha or Shadow Warrior , Akira Kurosawa presents the sixteenth-century Takeda clan engaging a lower-class thief to impersonate their recently deceased leader, Takeda Shingen. I examine Kagemusha as a critical engagement with Shakespeare’s English history plays and ‘shadow’ counterpart to Kurosawa’s trilogy of Shakespeare adaptations, Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960) and Ran (1985). In keeping with Shakespear…
“How do you know you’re safe at school? When I’m not there”. Perspectives of autistic young people and school staff from one secondary school about attendance struggles and who is accountable for chan…
School non-attendance became an international phenomenon post-pandemic with many schools, regardless of intake or location, experiencing increases in pupils struggling to attend. However, pre-pandemic data highlight that non-attendance of autistic students was already a significant issue and increased post-pandemic. Indeed, autistic students continue to be overrepresented in non-attendance figures and research is needed to understand more about t…
Epistemology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art (3 works)