Lindsay Waters

Lindsay Waters is the executive editor for humanities at Harvard University Press. His book Against Authoritarian Aesthetics: Towards a Poetics of Experience was published in Putong Hua (Mandarin) by Peking University Press (2000).

Slow train coming

It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio

By Lindsay Waters

/ 12 Jan 2003

The Ambassadors: close encounters with China

The peoples of China and the United States of America are just plain foreign to one another. There is no need for a sinister explanation of this. Each country fills

By Lindsay Waters

/ 30 Oct 2002

The American challenge: waking to dream again

The sudden vogue of Walter Benjamin in the 1990s seemed to arise weirdly, out of nowhere, until one considers that his is a philosophy of awakening out of an intoxicating

By Lindsay Waters

/ 23 Jan 2002