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Delving into Austen's six major works, we explore the daring innovations and groundbreaking experimentalism that she brought to the development of the novel form. We probe both her technical prowess and her astute engagement with key issues of her time.
This course will give you a kaleidoscopic picture of colonialism as a dark and self-revealing experience, through the lenses of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, and Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand stories.
Marx's Capital is one of the most famous and consequential books of the last two hundred years. Melding philosophy, political economy, history and more, delivered in a pungent literary style, it remains one of the classic accounts of the modern condition.
Twentieth Century French Philosophy is both rich and varied. With a concern for our understanding of the self, wedded to the significance of our being with others, these philosophers examined how we attempt to make sense of ourselves and our world.
Introducing key philosophical ideas and puzzles drawing for inspiration on classic movies, including The Matrix, The Stepford Wives, Blade Runner, The Time Machine, and Freaky Friday.
This course is intended to be an introduction to the key concerns of the major Western philosophers from the earliest days of the pre-Socratic philosophers through to the twentieth century.
We live in a changing world. This course will help you develop an ethical structure for approaching controversial problems of today including assisted dying, war, AI and climate change
An introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein's later thinking, with a focus on mind and meaning. We explore many of Wittgenstein's key ideas and arguments, from family resemblance to the private language argument.
Positive Psychology offers a direct approach to help people create strategies towards wellbeing. Changing our interpretation of the world can help us feel happier, healthier, more positive, and become more resilient. Join us in Oxford to learn more.
Would you like to learn how to read medieval handwriting in original documents? Join us for this weekend event, studying the basics of the most common scripts, covering the history of handwriting and taking practical examples from popular record types.
Is free will an illusion—one over which we would have no control? If it is real, what does it mean to have it, and who (or what) possesses it? Is free will unique to humans, or might it extend to other animals—or even to artificial systems?
Discover fundamental principles of good reasoning and improve your ability to assess the reliability of sources. Develop your own thinking and learn how to analyse and evaluate arguments presented by others.
