Discreet rise of a bourgeois clan
The Beggar and the Professor
The Beggar and the Professor
Valerie Sanders relishes this considered study of a quietly worthy class of men
As the debate on terror intensifies, Terry Eagleton delves into the philosophy of terrorism and finds its origins in middle-class anarchy Terrorism is a surprisingly new invention. Of course human...
The historian and author of The Politics of Humiliation discusses fairy tales and myths, the history of emotions, and the relationships between victim, perpetrators and onlookers
Debates rage about the appropriateness of objects displayed in many anthropological exhibitions amid accusations they perpetuate poisonous imperialist narratives. However, Adam Kuper believes...
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal their favourite titles – read for work, for pleasure or both – published this year
Mark Mazower’s stimulating work analyses how the world was governed (or at least how attempts were made to govern it) in the periods following three “settlements”. First came the Concert of Europe,...
Peter J. Smith applauds a fascinating, if stomach-churning, study of ‘the pongs of the past’
The Politics of Women's Work
As meritocratic approach to education finds favour in UK, academic argues its dystopian original meaning has come to pass in China
Walter Benjamin - The Arcades Project - The Complete Correspondence,1928-1940
The economist and polymath on A. N. Wilson and Isaiah Berlin, mushy peas and sisterly libertarianism, and all those books as yet unread and unwritten
Even universities in the hermit kingdom largely cut themselves off from the rest of the world. Yet those few Westerners with direct experience of them suggest that while critical inquiry is...
David Rosenthal on a Renaissance man who recorded in detail his obsession with the functional aesthetics his clothing and dress
Peter J. Smith enjoys a powerful analysis of how the work of the Bard cuts through simplistic notions of national identity