This review of Francis Wheen’s wonderful book about the 1970s, Strange Days Indeed, appears this week in the New Statesman.
Writing in Harpers and Queen in January 1978, the cultural critic Peter York took the temperature of his times. “The real keynotes of the Seventies,” he declared, “are fragmentation . . . and paranoia.” Even though [...]
This review of Fred Inglis’s biography of R.G. Collingwood appears in the current issue of the Literary Review.
Fred Inglis
History Man: The
Life of R.G. Collingwood
Princeton University Press, 400pp, £23.95
Gilbert Ryle, the grey eminence of Oxford philosophy during its heyday in the 1950s, used to say that the correct way to read the great philosophers of the [...]