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Renunciation: Heidegger, Agamben, Blanchot, Vattimo
(Edinburgh University Press, 2009-02)
In the essay Das Wort (Words) in On the Way to Language, Martin Heidegger speaks of 'renunciation' (Verzicht) as the necessary route towards experiencing that which remains otherwise invisible and unsayable. Heidegger ...
Triumphant failure: the return of the Irish Papal Brigade
(Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 2009)
In early 1860, Italian unification was gaining momentum and Pope Pius IX, the temporal
ruler of large parts of central Italy, feared an invasion of his extensive territories by the
troops of Victor Emanuel of Piedmont ...