Author Paul Downes

Paul Downes’ poetry has been published in the Wallace Stevens Journal and EUR/OPEN. He has also published books and journal articles in areas of philosophy, psychology, education, law, anthropology and social policy and has given keynote lectures and invited presentations in 30 countries. His books include, The Primordial Dance: Concentric and Diametric Spaces in the Unconscious World (2012), Concentric Space as a Life Principle Beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur: Inclusion of the Other (2020) and Towards a Concentric Spatial Psychology for Social and Emotional Education Beyond the Interlocking Spatial Pillars of Modernism (2024). He is Professor of Psychology of Education, Director of the Educational Disadvantage Centre, Institute of Education, Dublin City University.