![]() ![]() I have always wanted to find a literary form which, I hoped, would draw attention to those figures of the contemporary world and the immediate past who do not lend themselves to the celebrity culture that so dominates our lives, and yet whose contribution is in my view often much more deserving of note. ![]() In one sense, this book began there and then. What surprised me, however, was that when I recounted my day to others later on, so few had heard of the man, even senior colleagues at the Observer. Having the world’s greatest living philosopher all to myself for a few hours was a rare privilege. It was February, and the ground was covered in ice and snow We both fell over. In the mid-1980s, on assignment for the London Observer, I was shown around Harvard University by Willard van Orman Quine. ![]() PART FOUR THE COUNTER-CULTURE TO KOSOVO The View from Nowhere, The View from Everywhere PART THREE SARTRE TO THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY The New Human Condition and The Great Societyģ0 EQUALITY, FREEDOM, AND JUSTICE IN THE GREAT SOCIETY PART TWO SPENGLER TO ANIMAL FARM Civilisations and Their Discontents PART ONE FREUD TO WITTGENSTEIN The Sense of a Beginning Introduction AN EVOLUTION IN THE RULES OF THOUGHT An Intellectual History of the 20th Century ![]()
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