David E. Cooper is a British author and philosopher. Educated at Highgate School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he began his academic career as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford in 1967. He taught at several universities, including Miami, London, and Surrey, before becoming a Professor of Philosophy at Durham University in 1986, where he worked until his retirement in 2008. He has also been a Visiting Professor in the US, Canada, Malta, Sri Lanka, and South Africa.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight’s Paddy O’Connell, Slavoj Žižek discusses his new book, Signs from the Future, examining Donald Trump’s political legacy, the decline of the liberal international order and the
Sri Lanka’s Finance Ministry has decided to close 34 state institutions, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said, as the government considers restructuring public sector organisations and addressing shortages of professional staff. Dissanayake announced the decision at the annual general meeting
Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa has urged his imprisoned son, parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, to place his trust exclusively in the judiciary and refrain
by Our Special Correspondent in Jaffna An interim archaeological investigation at Chemmani in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district has recovered 574 minimum-number-of-individuals human skeletons,
A few years ago, I hired a ‘safari’ jeep to take me into the Bundala National Park, one of the world’s great bird reserves, on the south-east coast of Sri Lanka. After
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