The Art of Listening by Les Back
Stuart Sim is impressed by Les Back's approach to sociology
Ideas
Thinker: Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach was the man who brought religion down to earth, says Nina Power
Native son
175 years after the death of Scotland’s most celebrated novelist, Murray Pittock asks if Walter Scott was an enemy of the Enlightenment, or its champion
Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory by Peter Dews
Daniel Miller reconsiders post-structuralism with Peter Dews
Love, life, Goethe
The great German writer was that wonderful contradiction, a romantic rationalist, says John Armstrong
Future Perfect: the transhumanist quest to defeat death
Transhumanists would like to cheat death and redesign genes. But Anita Silvers is not sure that would be wise
Thinker: David Hume
Julian Baggini celebrates the pragmatic genius of David Hume
Thinker: Adam Smith
Nicholas Phillipson explains why the ideas of Adam Smith are still common currency today
Gurus of endless war
Rumsfeld resigned, Wolfowitz ousted, Fukuyama defected, 'Scooter' Libby convicted. You could be forgiven for thinking that neoconservatives have had their day. But that would be a grave error, warns political…
Be tolerant or else
Eliane Glaser challenges a core British value