Mike Robson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 205573 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mike Robson |
| PRENOMES | Mike |
| SOBRENOME | Robson |
| ASSINATURA | ROBSON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3003-3447 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Acts of Thought and Re-enactment in Collingwood's Philosophy of History
This article explores one of Collingwood's most puzzling claims-that, in re-enacting a past act of thought, I can revive not just the propositional content of that act but also the very act of thought itself. This aspect of Collingwood's ideas has been largely ignored, and, when not ignored, it has been almost universally rejected. After all, we might ask, how can it be that two acts of thought-one, say, had by Carol in the library on Wednesday a…
Rendezvous
The pandemic returned me to photography. It heightened my awareness of movement. In common with many others, during lockdown, I took to walking, increasingly, in my case, with camera in hand. When lockdown lifted, it was Paris that I was drawn to.In a city such as Paris, one of the consequences of the pandemic was a re-enchantment of public spaces. If the lockdown prevented indoor encounters, the public park became a scene of meeting. A sharing o…
Jacques Rancière and Time
This article asks whether the work of Jacques Rancière might be said to present a philosophy of time. Outlining the ways in which a consideration of time is a central component of Rancière's thinking on a range of issues, particularly in his attention to the politics of time (the time of workers, the invocation of different notions of past and future in a range of political contexts), the article shows Rancière's resistance both to certain Marxis…
Divine maximal beauty
In this article I reply to Jon Robson's objections to my argument that God does not contain any possible worlds. I had argued that ugly possible worlds clearly compromise God's beauty. Robson argues that I failed to show that possible worlds can be subject to aesthetic evaluation, and that even if they were it could be the case that ugliness might contribute to God's overall beauty. In reply I try to show that possible worlds are aesthetically ev…
The Hour is Unknown
There is a line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that I have found funny-both amusing and peculiar, that is-for a long time now. Julius Caesar was the first Shakespeare play I read at school, so the humor I found in it was one that appealed to a certain teenage cynicism. The line appears in a passage in which Shakespeare chooses very deliberately to depart from his source in North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the Romans , giving us a line t…
In the Bitter Letter (A Rendition of Othello )
Through a series of ‘rents’, this article reads the interplay between Shakespeare's Othello and various senses of rendition. The strange relations of theatricality, desire, violence and the unknown that the play stages are read in the light of Jacques Derrida's thinking on strangers, inhabitation, pity and blindness. In offering a rendition of Othello, much hinges on the politics of the word ‘in’
Travelling Companions
Possible worlds and the beauty of God
In this paper I explore the relationship between the idea of possible worlds and the notion of the beauty of God. I argue that there is a clear contradiction between the idea that God is utterly and completely beautiful on the one hand and the notion that He contains within himself all possible worlds on the other. Since some of the possible worlds residing in the mind of the deity are ugly, their presence seems to compromise God's complete and u…
In the Living-Room
A literary animal
An Other Europe
Does Europe exist? The identity of Europe has rarely seemed less certain. What traditionally might be conceived of as its conceptual, institutional, political, cultural and geographical unity and integrity have been extended, undermined, defended, strengthened or abandoned, according to your point of view. As debates around the possible inclusion of Turkey within a European Community (to which ‘Europe’ cannot plausibly be reduced) have shown, the…
Reading Hester Pulter Reading
This article offers a reading of the poetry of the seventeenth‐century royalist Hester Pulter. Focusing on the question of how best to respond to Pulter's poems, the article takes up the matter of ‘reading as’, explicitly acknowledging the role of gender in and as reading. I suggest that a concern with aisthesis makes possible an engagement that makes apparent reading processes rather than simply producing more readings. Noting the possibility of…
Introduction
Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities
The Baby Bomber
This article offers a reading of an image of a child dressed in the uniform of a Palestinian suicide bomber that circulated under the name ‘The baby bomber’. The author examines both the claims made about the picture by Israeli and Palestinian authorities, and the reception of the image in the Western media. Focusing on the representation of childhood and the representation of suicide, which come together in this image, the article addresses the …
Wolfes wife
World energy prices
Introduction
A literary animal
Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities
Jacques Rancière and Time
This article asks whether the work of Jacques Rancière might be said to present a philosophy of time. Outlining the ways in which a consideration of time is a central component of Rancière's thinking on a range of issues, particularly in his attention to the politics of time (the time of workers, the invocation of different notions of past and future in a range of political contexts), the article shows Rancière's resistance both to certain Marxis…
In the Living-Room
An Other Europe
Does Europe exist? The identity of Europe has rarely seemed less certain. What traditionally might be conceived of as its conceptual, institutional, political, cultural and geographical unity and integrity have been extended, undermined, defended, strengthened or abandoned, according to your point of view. As debates around the possible inclusion of Turkey within a European Community (to which ‘Europe’ cannot plausibly be reduced) have shown, the…
World energy prices
World energy prices
Wolfes wife
The Baby Bomber
This article offers a reading of an image of a child dressed in the uniform of a Palestinian suicide bomber that circulated under the name ‘The baby bomber’. The author examines both the claims made about the picture by Israeli and Palestinian authorities, and the reception of the image in the Western media. Focusing on the representation of childhood and the representation of suicide, which come together in this image, the article addresses the …
Reading Hester Pulter Reading
This article offers a reading of the poetry of the seventeenth‐century royalist Hester Pulter. Focusing on the question of how best to respond to Pulter's poems, the article takes up the matter of ‘reading as’, explicitly acknowledging the role of gender in and as reading. I suggest that a concern with aisthesis makes possible an engagement that makes apparent reading processes rather than simply producing more readings. Noting the possibility of…
Introduction
Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities
An Other Europe
Does Europe exist? The identity of Europe has rarely seemed less certain. What traditionally might be conceived of as its conceptual, institutional, political, cultural and geographical unity and integrity have been extended, undermined, defended, strengthened or abandoned, according to your point of view. As debates around the possible inclusion of Turkey within a European Community (to which ‘Europe’ cannot plausibly be reduced) have shown, the…
In the Living-Room
A literary animal
Possible worlds and the beauty of God
In this paper I explore the relationship between the idea of possible worlds and the notion of the beauty of God. I argue that there is a clear contradiction between the idea that God is utterly and completely beautiful on the one hand and the notion that He contains within himself all possible worlds on the other. Since some of the possible worlds residing in the mind of the deity are ugly, their presence seems to compromise God's complete and u…
In the Bitter Letter (A Rendition of Othello )
Through a series of ‘rents’, this article reads the interplay between Shakespeare's Othello and various senses of rendition. The strange relations of theatricality, desire, violence and the unknown that the play stages are read in the light of Jacques Derrida's thinking on strangers, inhabitation, pity and blindness. In offering a rendition of Othello, much hinges on the politics of the word ‘in’
Travelling Companions
The Hour is Unknown
There is a line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that I have found funny-both amusing and peculiar, that is-for a long time now. Julius Caesar was the first Shakespeare play I read at school, so the humor I found in it was one that appealed to a certain teenage cynicism. The line appears in a passage in which Shakespeare chooses very deliberately to depart from his source in North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the Romans , giving us a line t…
Divine maximal beauty
In this article I reply to Jon Robson's objections to my argument that God does not contain any possible worlds. I had argued that ugly possible worlds clearly compromise God's beauty. Robson argues that I failed to show that possible worlds can be subject to aesthetic evaluation, and that even if they were it could be the case that ugliness might contribute to God's overall beauty. In reply I try to show that possible worlds are aesthetically ev…
Jacques Rancière and Time
This article asks whether the work of Jacques Rancière might be said to present a philosophy of time. Outlining the ways in which a consideration of time is a central component of Rancière's thinking on a range of issues, particularly in his attention to the politics of time (the time of workers, the invocation of different notions of past and future in a range of political contexts), the article shows Rancière's resistance both to certain Marxis…
Rendezvous
The pandemic returned me to photography. It heightened my awareness of movement. In common with many others, during lockdown, I took to walking, increasingly, in my case, with camera in hand. When lockdown lifted, it was Paris that I was drawn to.In a city such as Paris, one of the consequences of the pandemic was a re-enchantment of public spaces. If the lockdown prevented indoor encounters, the public park became a scene of meeting. A sharing o…
Acts of Thought and Re-enactment in Collingwood's Philosophy of History
This article explores one of Collingwood's most puzzling claims-that, in re-enacting a past act of thought, I can revive not just the propositional content of that act but also the very act of thought itself. This aspect of Collingwood's ideas has been largely ignored, and, when not ignored, it has been almost universally rejected. After all, we might ask, how can it be that two acts of thought-one, say, had by Carol in the library on Wednesday a…
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