http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/125465 Volume 2021 2026-04-12T07:47:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/183919 Nouvelle Histoire de la danse en Occident: De la Préhistoire à nos jours, edited by Laura Cappelle Bronowski, Ada A book review of Laura Cappelle. Nouvelle Histoire de la danse en Occident: De la Préhistoire à nos jours. Paris: Seuil, 2020, 368 pp. ISBN 978-2021399899. 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/183918 Art as Human Practice: An Aesthetics by Georg W. Bertram Moland, Lydia A book review of Georg W. Bertram, Art as Human Practice: An Aesthetics. Translated by Nathan Ross. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, x + 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-3500-6314-3. 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/183917 Literary Interventions in Justice: A Symposium Kirkpatrick, Kate; McGregor, Rafe; Simecek, Karen The purpose of this symposium is to explore the ways in which literature, broadly construed to include poetry and narrative in a variety of modes of representation, can change the world by providing interventions in justice. Our approach foregrounds the relationship between the activity demanded by some individual literary works and some categories of literary work on the one hand and the way in which those works can make a tangible difference to social reality on the other. We consider three types of active literary engagement: doing philosophy, ideological critique, and necessary rather than contingent performance. Kate Kirkpatrick opens with Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation (2013), reading the narrator as not only a critic of colonial and postcolonial discourse but also a literary exemplar of the search for justice when it is difficult to know to what level of explanation to attribute its absence. Rafe McGregor demonstrates how the final season of Prime Video’s The Man in the High Castle (2015–19) makes a radical break from the previous three, exposing the misanthropy at the core of right-wing populism and calling for a fundamentally democratic response from the left. Finally, Karen Simecek argues that poetry in performance has a potentially reparative function for the ethically lonely – the vulnerable, the oppressed, and the persecuted – in society. 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/183916 Wittgenstein, Loos, and the Critique of Ornament Vrahimis, Andreas Adolf Loos is one of the few figures that Wittgenstein explicitly named as an influence on his thought. Loos’s influence has been debated in the context of determining Wittgenstein’s relation to modernism, as well as in attempts to come to terms with his work as an architect. This paper looks in a different direction, examining a remark in which Wittgenstein responded to Heidegger’s notorious pronouncement that ‘the Nothing noths’ by reference to Loos’s critique of ornamentation. Wittgenstein draws a parallel between the requirement to start philosophy with an inarticulate sound and the need, in certain cultural periods, to highlight the borders of tablecloths using lace. Paying heed to Wittgenstein’s remark sheds further light on a Loosian influence at work in his thinking about modern civilization, both in his well-known ‘Lectures on Aesthetics’ and in the earlier notes from his 1930 lectures at Cambridge. 2021-09-16T00:00:00Z