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South Africa's Brave New World by RW Johnson (Stephen Howe, May/June 2009)

South Africa's Brave New World by RW Johnson There are at least two possible stories one could tell about this book, and about the career of its author - a career of which the book is a kind of summation. One tells of a former radical Africanist, Oxford disciple of the Marxist historian Thomas ...

Book review: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and Europe by Christopher Caldwell (Kenan Malik, Web Exclusive)

Book review: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and Europe by Christopher Caldwell In his classic 1920 book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy, the American historian, political theorist and anti-immigration activist Theodore Lothrop Stoddard warned of ...

Critical humanism (AC Grayling, January/February 2004)

... horrors of the last century. Such is the tenor of Todorov's absorbing book. As with all works of ideas it offers much to debate, even to disagree with; but even more to learn from, and to profit by. Book Review: AC Grayling on Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov AC Grayling humanism;philosophy ...

Book Review: Questions of Truth: God, Science and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale (AC Grayling, March/April 2009)

... blah...see my book chapter 9, all rather complicated..." Indeed. What is not complicated, though, is the scandal that the Royal Society is allowing its premises to be used for the launch of this book. The accompanying publicity material has in the small print the statement, "This book is being ...

Book review (New Humanist Update #59)

Book review Punishment: The Supposed Justification of Punishment Ted Honderich Pluto Press 264pp Ted Honderich was born In Canada in 1933. He moved to London in the late '50s to work with Alfred Ayer and is currently Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University of ...

Book review: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (Daniel Miller, Web Exclusive)

Book review: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño is the man of the moment. Eight years after his death, and only one year after the translation of his first novel The Savage Detectives, the American release of Bolaño's second large book, 2666, was met in the fall by more-or-less ...

Book review (New Humanist Update #54)

Book review HOW ARE THINGS? A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENT Roger-Pol Droit Faber & Faber Translated by Theo Cuffe 224pp £12.99 Roger-Pol Droit's 'How Are Things?' begins as a reflection on the meaning of the common greeting 'How are things?', and turns into a series of ...

Superior Sniggers (Julian Baggini, November/December 2003)

... respectful?Second, though we may moan about the religious bias of this book, if we were honest, most of us do not want it replaced by an unbiased book, but one which deals with ethics in a purely secular fashion. But such a book, premised as it would be on the separation of ethics and religion ...

Book review (New Humanist Update #72)

Book review Pocket Book of Patriots: Over 100 British Heroes George Courtald Routledge 2006 Patriotism has had a bad press in this country in recent years. In many peoples' minds it tends to be almost synonymous with jingoism and militarism. The author clearly doesn't see his title as in any ...

Book review (New Humanist Update #62)

Book review The Bloody Sunday Inquiry: The Families Speak Out Edited by Eamonn McCann Pluto Press 192pp £10.99 The findings of the Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday massacre are expected to be released later this year. The Inquiry, the second into the events of 30 January 1972, where ...