Nina Power
Nina Power is a regular contributor to New Humanist and a lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University. Her PhD was on humanism and anti-humanism in post-war French philosophy.
Articles by Nina Power
Book review: Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
Nina Power puzzles over a heavyweight intellectual partnership
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Book review: The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
Nina Power appreciates a sharp critique of consumerism
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For uselessness!
In the UK the axe is falling on philosophy departments. Nina Power reports from the frontline
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Think again
Postmodern theory can be pretentious and overblown. But a series of reissues now attempts to reclaim its importance. Nina Power assesses its impact
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God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam
Nina Power on a good Dark Ages argument made for the wrong reasons
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The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
Nina Power tires of Slavoj Žižek and his monstrous essays
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The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson
Nina Power considers complicity in Iraq
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The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands
Nina Power takes philosophy lessons from a wolf
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Malls & Mausoleums
Iran refuses to conform to expectations, finds Nina Power
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Thinker: Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach was the man who brought religion down to earth, says Nina Power
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Naughty but nice
Contemporary pornography is a hideous distortion of the joys of sex. Yet, argues Nina Power, it could all have been so different
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Fangland by John Marks
Nina Power relishes a Dracula for the TV generation
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Hare brained
Nina Power reviews Zeno's Tortoise
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Fail better
Nina Power says the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is worth celebrating
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No doubt
Nina Power has some doubts about a new history of scepticism
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Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
Nina Power deconstructs a contemporary parable
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