Dennis Davis

Dennis Davis was educated at the Universities of Cape Town and Cambridge. One of South Africa's most respected legal minds, he was appointed to a personal chair of Commercial Law in 1989, in 1998 he became a Judge of the High Court, and the President of the Competition Appeal Court in 2000.
JBW 2022 Digipass
Jewish Book Week Digi-Pass gives access to all eight KPlayer (online streaming) events for £39.50. Including: Mourning & Evening – Monday 28 February 1pm GMT From burials to sitting shiva, join the authors of two intriguing new books on how Jewish communities mark death. Nessa Rapoport, author of Preparing for Sabbath and A Women’s Book of Grieving, returns with Evening: A Novel, with a Jewish family mourning the death of one of two sisters. ...
Fear of Black Consciousness
Afro-Jewish philosopher Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black Existentialism, joins us live from the US to discuss his ground-breaking look at how racial identity is constructed and experienced through history, art, politics and popular culture. Described by Judith Butler as “a thinker whose reflections on race have produced singular illuminations on our times”, Gordon is head of philosophy at UCONN-Storrs, visiting professor at the University of Johannesb...
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: The Feud
This event is included in our best-value Digipass offer, featuring 16 digital events for only £39.50. For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the 20th century’s most important thinkers—and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for political theory and philosophy. Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin fundamentally disagreed on ce...