School for Scoundrels: The Nightmare Vision of Thomas Wedgwood
IN the north-west midlands of England, there is a famous china and porcelain industry that
Day: April 15, 2022
Who Needs Morality? Goethe’s Passions
THE well-known Enlightenment figure, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), had an interesting view on maintaining virtue
The Golden Thread: Walter Benjamin’s Romantic Side
THE Frankfurt School philosopher, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), is often dismissed as a Marxist but his
The Romantic Manifesto: William Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
FIRST published in 1798, the Lyrical Ballads was a collection of poems by William Wordsworth
Črtomir and Bogomila: A Slovenian Love Story
THERE is a nineteenth-century Romantic called France Prešeren (1800-1849) who, in Slovenia, is still widely
Frost at Midnight: Naturphilosophie in the Work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge was born in the small Devon town of Ottery St. Mary in
The Battle of Pollilur: Stockholm Syndrome in Eighteenth-Century India
ELSEWHERE on this website, I have submitted two separate pieces about British colonialism in India,
Jagat Seth: India’s Rothschilds
IN a previous contribution to this website, entitled ‘Death Factory: The Brutal Rise of the
Death Factory: The Brutal Origins of the East India Company
THERE is a widely held belief that the British State added India to its list
