Dolan Cummings

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About Dolan Cummings
Dolan Cummings is the author of two novels - Gehenna: a novel of Hell and Earth (2020) and That Existential Leap: a crime story (2017).
Dolan also works as a freelance copywriter and speechwriter. He is originally from Glasgow and now lives in London. He is an Associate Fellow of the Academy of Ideas and one of the organisers of its annual Battle of Ideas festival in London. Previously he edited two collections of essays: The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual (2005) and Debating Humanism (2006).
His personal website can be found at dolancummings.com.
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Books By Dolan Cummings
Gehenna: A novel of Hell and Earth
05-Jul-2020
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DCI Alexander thinks of his job as debunking supposedly occult or supernatural crimes by subjecting them to rational police procedure. But his own demons are not so easily dispelled; he’s not even going to mention them to his psychiatrist. Then a mysterious woman contacts Alexander via an author of his acquaintance. At her request, the author guides Alexander on a journey through Hell… Dante’s Hell seen through the prism of modern Glasgow. The tortured souls he encounters there include historical figures and characters from literature as well as those he knows from his own world, all suffering horribly imaginative and fitting punishments for their sins. Even when he returns periodically to the world of mortals, Alexander struggles to get a grip on reality. He is unsettled by an outbreak of freakishly bad behaviour among schoolchildren almost as much as he is by a chilling murder. His domestic life is also chaotic, as he struggles to discipline his own young daughter Morgan and puts off the question of where things are going with his girlfriend and junior colleague Karen.
What Alexander sees in Hell challenges his personal and professional intuitions about morality and justice. He begins to wonder where precisely he would end up if, just for the sake of argument, he were condemned to Hell. It’s a game we can all play. But the author is not guiding Alexander through Hell for fun. Who is the mysterious woman, and why did she commission him?
What Alexander sees in Hell challenges his personal and professional intuitions about morality and justice. He begins to wonder where precisely he would end up if, just for the sake of argument, he were condemned to Hell. It’s a game we can all play. But the author is not guiding Alexander through Hell for fun. Who is the mysterious woman, and why did she commission him?
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That Existential Leap: A Crime Story
26-May-2017
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Part bildungsroman and part psychological thriller, That Existential Leap is a novel of ideas about the struggle for self-realisation and belonging in the postmodern West. Claudette Dasgupta is a thoughtful but unremarkable American teenager unenthusiastic about the prospect of college and a conventional life. When she meets the heroically mysterious Siegfried at the New York Public Library, she barely hesitates to throw in her lot with him, but soon finds an unscripted life is scarier, and harder, than she could have imagined. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in Siegfried’s home town Glasgow, unconventional police detective Alexander investigates his disappearance. Alexander is soon caught up in still more unworldly affairs as his work spirals out of control and his personal life unravels. As the two stories wrap around one another, encompassing the worlds of crime and gangsterism, the law and police work, music and the supernatural, Dolan Cummings' novel explores the terrifying uncertainty at the core of all human relationships.
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The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual
27-Sep-2013
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Ideas can define and transform society, but how healthy is intellectual life today? In a period when Big Brother refers not to George Orwell but to a reality TV show, and when bright young things are developing gameshow formats rather than scribbling essays; when thinkers join think tanks to design short-term government policy rather than reflecting on and challenging the status quo, and when the ever growing number of graduates seem more interested in job prospects than academic endeavour, is intellectual life in terminal decline?
This book looks at the idea of the public intellectual, considering whether such thinkers are becoming an endangered species. It also looks at the legacy of relativism and ethical doubts about the pursuit of knowledge, and the effect of such developments on intellectual life. The final section considers the expansion of higher education and the changing role of the academic. Taken together, the essays in this collection form a comprehensive overview of the intellectual climate today, and the possibilities for the future.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP).
This book looks at the idea of the public intellectual, considering whether such thinkers are becoming an endangered species. It also looks at the legacy of relativism and ethical doubts about the pursuit of knowledge, and the effect of such developments on intellectual life. The final section considers the expansion of higher education and the changing role of the academic. Taken together, the essays in this collection form a comprehensive overview of the intellectual climate today, and the possibilities for the future.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP).