Simon Ravenscroft
Biographic Data
| ID | 5240901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Ravenscroft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravenscroft |
| SIGNATURE | RAVENSCROFT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4371-3695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood
This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed knowledge. To picture transcendence as enigmatically near within immanence, rather than set abstractly ov…
Higher Education Outreach
How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional concern for widening participation, graduate employability and research impact in an era of austerity and high tuition fees. While university outreach professionals, such as those in widening participa…
Modernity and the Economics of Gift and Charity
Introduction This essay explores the theological and philosophical foundations of Ivan Illich's thought, by putting it in conversation with the themes of charity, love, and gift as these have been understood in traditional and contemporary theology and philosophy. Illich was a Catholic thinker whose difficult relations with the Church hierarchy meant that the theological dimension of his thought was often left inexplicit. Despite this, particular…
Higher Education Outreach
How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional concern for widening participation, graduate employability and research impact in an era of austerity and high tuition fees. While university outreach professionals, such as those in widening participa…
Modernity and the Economics of Gift and Charity
Introduction This essay explores the theological and philosophical foundations of Ivan Illich's thought, by putting it in conversation with the themes of charity, love, and gift as these have been understood in traditional and contemporary theology and philosophy. Illich was a Catholic thinker whose difficult relations with the Church hierarchy meant that the theological dimension of his thought was often left inexplicit. Despite this, particular…
Higher Education Outreach
How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional concern for widening participation, graduate employability and research impact in an era of austerity and high tuition fees. While university outreach professionals, such as those in widening participa…
Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood
This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed knowledge. To picture transcendence as enigmatically near within immanence, rather than set abstractly ov…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Conversation (1 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (1 works) · Dimension (graph theory (1 works)