Thank you to all readers for an excellent response to our Routledge Classics competition (issue 13 August 2001). The answers are below each question:
Which 20th-century thinker was the subject of Iris Murdoch's 1953 book subtitled "romantic rationalist"?
a) Sartre b) Wittgenstein c) Yates
Answer: a
W H R Rivers was featured as the hero of which Booker Prize-winning book?
a) The Blind Assassin b) The Ghost Road c) The God of Small Things
Answer: b
Michel Foucault famously co-opted Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon in order to illustrate his theory of
a) surveillance b) madness c) sexuality
Answer: a
The subject of Sigmund Freud's famous case study on hysteria, "Anna O", was actually named:
a) Martha Bernays b) Sophie Halberstadt c) Bertha Pappenheim
Answer: c
If E=Energy and M=Mass, to what does the C refer in Albert Einstein's famous equation?
a) Relativity b) Light c) Gravity
Answer: b
Our five winners, who each receive a complete set of Routledge Classics, are:
Fatema Ahmed, Edgware, Middlesex
Richard Kaberry, Sale, Cheshire
Mark Vernon, London, SE11
Thom Townsend, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
J S Davies, Wirral, Merseyside
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