Prudence, you no longer rule my world
Deirdre McCloskey once thought economics and rationality were the key to understanding society, but the explanatory power of rhetoric has dented her faith in the dismal scienceMy life, and I suppose...
Search
-
-
Book of the week: Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education
Rick Trainor discovers a critique of relevance on both sides of the pond
-
The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain
Jerome de Groot finds television's depiction of the First World War is put into clear focus
-
The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society
The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual - its authors call it a pamphlet - may well come to be regarded as the most important work to emerge from America's social sciences so far this millennium. It was...
-
The Canon: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. By Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann (1921-80) was a Lutheran of Jewish descent who converted to Judaism. Fleeing Nazi Germany for America, he became professor of philosophy at Princeton University after active service...
-
The Tunguska Mystery
Alan Gilmore is doubtful of a study that ignores credible science and focuses on the unknown
-
Gangs, Marginalised Youth and Social Capital
In the early 1970s, a sociologist using the pseudonym James Patrick published a book that he researched by going undercover in Glasgow's tough inner-city housing schemes and participating in the...
-
Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Musicologists, as well as opera buffs, will welcome this well-documented and thoughtfully written study on a relatively rare topic: namely, the practice and performance of insertion arias in operatic...
-
Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion
A confused attempt to explain the unspeakable falls back on the usual suspects, writes Fred Inglis
-
The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
A.W. Purdue feels this Tory analysis may underestimate the fluidity of the electorate
-
Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere
Ludwig Wittgenstein was unarguably one of the most compelling and applicable thinkers across so many disciplines. Here, Christopher Robinson, assistant professor of humanities and social sciences at...
-
Issues in Contemporary Documentary
As Jane Chapman notes in her introduction to this broad-ranging book, "documentary is now so popular and diverse that it needs to be understood as complex, multifaceted and influenced by a range of...
-
Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago
Paula Gerson is transported to Galicia by this guide to the route to Saint James' remains
-
The Fighting Tudors
You cannot put a good man down! This appears to be David Loades' third book on the Tudors to have been published in 2009, and in total he must soon be approaching his half century, which should...
-
Genocide before the Holocaust
The word "genocide" was coined by the Polish-born Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943. Taking its roots from Greek and Latin, it describes the targeted and intentional killing or destruction of a...