Issues

October/November 2011

Editorial — Tom McGuire
Don Quixote and The Narrative Self — Stefán Snaevarr
Ideology and the Self — Will Wilkinson
Narrative and Identity — José Ángel García Landa
Entangled in Stories — Norbert Meuter
Spinning Narratives, Spinning Selves — Pauline O’Flynn
Reading Fiction Improves Empathy — Alison Flood
Words — Yahia Lababidi

June/July 2011

'Condemned to Joy?': The Search for Happiness. French philosopher Pascal Bruckner believes the cult of happiness is surrounded by anxiety.

Philosopher Michael Bruce is full of praise for Joshua Dienstag’s new book 'Pessimism Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit'.

Author, Kenan Malik reviews Roger Scruton’s book 'The Uses of Pessimism'.

Kathleen O’Dwyer reviews Bertrand Russell’s book ‘The Conquest of Happiness’.

Madelein Bunting and Mark Williamson provide their comments about a new activity Action for Happiness that was recently started in the U.K.

January/February 2011

Ariadne

Schopenhauer is Always Topical by Thomas Koster

Kant Get No Satisfaction by Stuart Hanscomb and Sam Washburn

A Question of Cultural Identity by Elle Hunt

The Cool-Kawii by T. Botz-Bornstein

Manic Street Preachers by Leighton Evans

Philosophy Regains its Senses by Ray Boisvert

Feast of Fantasies by Yahia Lababidi