Utopian Gossip: “The Homosexual in Society” from Robert Duncan to New Narrative by Eric Sneathen

“…The second half of the essay considers how New Narrative writers related to Duncan and his essay, including a shared interest in gossip. …”
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Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria by Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

“…The essay concludes by arguing for a rigorous public enlightenment as well as a reform of the educational curriculum through an injection of virtue ethics. …”
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Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Thought: Policy Considerations for Nigeria by Wale Olajide

“… This essay interrogates what can be described as Yorùbá population philosophy, within the context of Yorùbá existential thought, and the effects it has on Nigeria’s population explosion. …”
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Ijegbe and Luse Performances, and the Dialects of Collectivized Tragedy and Ideology among the Ilaje by Stephen Ola Ajimisan

“… This essay explores the genres of Biripo, the Ilaje oral performance or folk-poetry, Ijegbe and Luse vis-à-vis the notion of collectivised tragedy and ideology among the people. …”
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Rethinking the Course Content and Pedagogies used in Learning about ‘Asian Religions’ by Maria Frahm-Arp

“… This essay examines the concerns expressed by students when studying a second-year module on Asian religions and how they thought the facilitation of their learning could be most effective. …”
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The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Portuondo María M.

“…This essay explores the tension that existed between empiricism and the metaphysical underpinnings of Aristotelian natural philosophy in Spain during the sixteenth century. …”
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Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere by Philip Schlesinger

“…This short essay reflects on Renato Ortiz’s work and its reception in the Anglosphere. …”
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Mary McLeod in conversation with Salomon Frausto and Leá-Catherine Szacka by Mary McLeod

“…In the essay, she examined the relationship between architecture and politics in the 1980s, a time of unprecedented change. …”
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Direito, política, autoritarismo e democracia no Brasil: da Revolução de 30 à promulgação da Constituição da República de 1988 by Cristiano Paixão

“…There were authoritarian and democratic constitutions in Brazilian politic and legal history. The focus of this essay will be on 1930-1945 and 1964-1988 periods. …”
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Fakecraft by Paul Christopher Johnson

“… The essay defines and explores the dimensions of ‘fakecraft’. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…This resulted in her 1927 essay “The New Biography” in which she praises Harold Nicolson as well as Lytton Strachey for making it new. …”
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Data Reshaped: Literalism in the Age of Digital Design and Architectural Fabrication by Eran Neuman

“…This essay examines the recent shift in the perception of literalism in architecture as a result of the advent of digital media and the emergence of digital design processes. …”
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D. A. Ọbasá: The Man and the Significance of his Cultural Activism by Adekemi Agnes Taiwo

“…The essay traces Obasa’s history; right from his birth to the period he became a renowned Yorùbá intellectual. …”
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The Zone in Reverse by Francesco Sebregondi

“…This essay proposes a reconstruction of the problem of logistics as seen through the prism of Gaza. …”
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Un General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) non molto general by Elena Bougleux

“…Before analyzing the technical merits of what is still possible to do and how to do it in compliance with current regulations, the essay discusses to what extent the concept of data as understood by the GDPR fits the case of our discipline. …”
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Does Locke Have an Akrasia Problem? by Samuel C. Rickless

“…Starting in the second edition of the Essay, Locke becomes interested in the phenomenon of akrasia, or weakness of will. …”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ Pater’s Enigmatic Term by Morito Uemura

“…This paper asserts that Pater’s essay title, ‘Diaphaneitè’, a modified version of the French word, enables one to trace the possible presence of Victor Hugo in Pater’s earliest essay. …”
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‘Echoes from Home’: The Personalist Ground of Newman’s Ecclesiology. Affection as the Key to Newman’s Intellectual Discernment on the Issue of Church by Dr Robert C. Christie

“…The groundwork for the Essay was laid in Newman’s final University Sermon written almost two years earlier (February 2, 1843). …”
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W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was by Ed Folsom

“…This essay recounts the author’s decades-long conversations with W.S. …”
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Adapting Yorùbá Epistemology in Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…Second, the essay deploys the African art-centered investigations of the role of the senses in relating with art, understood as paradigmatic of navigating the world. …”
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