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Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who reads books, sits in meetings, falls in love, falls ill, faces death.But it also constructs a highly wrought and interlocking pattern of images and emblems which whoosh you, if you let them, right into the middle of ‘the trauma within reason itself’.
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The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett. Allen Lane, 540 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 39422 9
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History of Ideas - London Review of Books
History of Ideas. David Runciman’s acclaimed series of introductions to the most important thinkers and ideas behind modern politics. It’s now part of David’s new weekly podcast, Past Present Future, in which David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and politicians about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean ...
Not Even a Might-Have Been - London Review of Books
Jan 19, 2023 · Chips Channon in Venice in 1951. Nicolson and Channon were both published authors, both became MPs, both acquired country houses, both married the daughters of peers, both had sons but were predominantly homosexual – and both kept diaries. When Nicolson’s diaries from 1930 to 1962 were published in three volumes between 1966 and 1968 (the ...
Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?
Mar 7, 2019 · Not all the conclusions reached about new forms of political legitimacy after the 1848 Revolutions were as benevolent as those Christopher Clark identifies (LRB, 7 March).King Louis Philippe of France, deposed in February that year after his soldiers fired into a crowd, watched from exile as the new government brutally put down radical uprisings in June and mused, ‘Republics are lucky: they ...