Exploring a Socratic Dialogue
There is renewed attention to the Plato’s Euthyphro. In 2017 Harvard University Press updated a version in the famous Loeb Classic series, begun in 1911. In 1914 the Loeb published…
T. S. Eliot and the Nucleus of Modernism
Ask a group of poetry experts what the most consequential poem of the 20th century was. The majority vote will most likely be The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. Written…
Landscape and Authority
The nine studies in this book edited by Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld, University of London) cover a wide range, both geographically and temporally. Their topic is the role of landscape…
Knowledge Lost
In these days of book-banning in America, the we must ask ourselves about the nature of knowledge. Faced with the onslaught of the thought police (who masquerade as elected state…
The Mob has Overthrown every Free Republic
University of Texas professor H.W. Brands has written another important book on American history. Perhaps best known for his book on FDR (Traitor to His Class), Brands holds the Jack…
Heracles: The Garland of Greece
This study of Heracles (better known by his Roman name Hercules) derives from the PhD thesis of Sofia Frade. She is now Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon; during…
HALLOWEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 is
about Scotland’s Darkest Secret This is not just a book about witches, but about Scottish witches! And Halloween is mentioned many times. Author Allyson Shaw, who has written much about…
HISTORY OF IDEAS
In the history of ideas, no one stands taller than the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). To quote from a recent book by Marco Sgarbi, Locke was persuaded that it is…
MOUNTBATTEN in Burma and India
Bloomsbury has recently published two books relating to Lord Louis Mountbatten, one of the two Supremos of World War II (the other being Eisenhower). One is about how the news…
French Philosophy of Science
Bloomsbury is publishing a series of books about the philosophy of Michel Serres (1930-2019). This is the third. The first two are Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary;…