Hilary Lawson
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Hilary Lawson is the author of Closure: a story of everything, a post Derridian return to metaphysics, and Reflexivity: the post-modern predicament. He is director of the Institute of Art and Ideas and vice-chair of the Forum for European Philosophy.

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Gearing Up for HowTheLightGetsIn

(1) Comments | Posted 18 April 2012 | (13:59)

Since my last post, things in the IAI office have been manic. Now in its fifth year, HowTheLightGetsIn has become the largest philosophy and music festival in the world. With 410 events, 6 stages, 165 speakers and 150 bands taking part in the 10 day extravaganza, the team...

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Putting Philosophy on the Map in 2012

(2) Comments | Posted 18 February 2012 | (00:00)

A few years ago, something about the UK's cultural landscape struck me as odd. We are world leaders at staging literary and music festivals like Cheltenham and Glastonbury, but philosophy was completely excluded from the festival circuit. It was seen as a trifling aside, a bit of a joke, rather...

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