Introduces students to 8 ethical theories that aim to tell us what we ought to do and why: normative ethics, utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, particularism and ecological ethics.
A pioneering discussion of Cicero’s case of Curius and its impact on longstanding debates about the “politics” of the Roman republican courts.
Tracks the unlikely collaboration between experimental poets and experimental linguists that gave rise to the earliest collections of poets’ voices.
Explores Virginia Woolf’s engagements with a broad range of religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Quakerism.
Catherine Guisan considers what lessons can be learnt for future conflict resolution, especially the War in Ukraine, from the processes of peacebuilding in Europe since the Second World War.
Reveals and defines the personal essay as a powerful site of contemporary Australian life writing, activism and cultural transformation.
Explores shifting conceptions of American adulthood as seen through film and TV adaptations of children’s books.
Explains the reversal between Romantic expressivism and Modernist formalism by analysing Victorian ideas of authorship.
Positions the strange and paradoxical concept of transcendental empiricism as the key to Deleuze’s work.
The first English translation of this powerful portrayal of child slavery in the Ottoman Empire, with supporting critical apparatus for students of slavery studies, Ottoman literature and history.
Examines the construction of cultural memory through text reuse within the Arabic written tradition.
Uses digital methods to examine a written traditional holistically and forensically.