Edward Skidelsky
Articles by Edward Skidelsky
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Free from sorrow
- 01 November 2004
An End to Suffering: the Buddha in the world
Pankaj Mishra Picador, 422pp, £17.99
ISBN 0374148368
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The discovery that life has no ultimate purpose leaves us free to make of it what we like. But in a godless universe, failure is absolute. The terrors of hell have been replaced by the terrors of social and sexual failure. By Edward Skidelsky
- 20 September 2004
What's It All About?: philosophy and the meaning of life
Julian Baggini Granta Books, 204pp, £12.99
ISBN 1862076618
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The good men of Russia. Philosophy in Russia is a moral calling, more likely to be pursued by journalists and monks than university professors. No doubt this explains the passionate seriousness of Russian thinkers - and their fondness for second-hand ideas
- 16 August 2004
Motherland: a philosophical history of Russia
Lesley Chamberlain Atlantic Books, 331pp, £25
ISBN 1843542854
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The lost disciples. The position of the teacher has become awkward and anomalous. The title "master", with its reactionary and illiberal connotations, seems at odds with modern ideals of education. Yet the desire for intellectual submission remains
- 08 December 2003
Lessons of the Masters
George Steiner Harvard University Press, 198pp, £12.95
ISBN 0674012070
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The quiet sceptic. Mary Midgley has consistently opposed attempts to transform scientific theories into political doctrines. In her latest book, she takes issue with the "magnificent visions" of the new geneticists. By Edward Skidelsky The quiet sceptic
- 07 July 2003
The Myths We Live By
Mary Midgley Routledge, 192pp, £19.99
ISBN 0415309069
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Into the inferno. Edward Skidelsky admires an ambitious attempt to bring the crimes of the Soviet regime out of the shadows
- 02 June 2003
Gulag: a history of the Soviet camps
Anne ApplebaumAllen Lane, The Penguin Press,
622pp, £25
ISBN 0713993227
Ideas
The tyranny of the topical
- 12 May 2003
Lives of the Mind: the use and abuse of intelligence, from Hegel to Wodehouse
Roger Kimball Ivan R Dee, 375pp, £18
ISBN 1566634792
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Divine creation. Matt Ridley is a libertarian and pessimist. He is sceptical of all political schemes to remake the world. But he is wrong about the new genetics. By Edward Skidelsky
- 31 March 2003
Nature via Nurture: genes, experience and what makes us human
Matt Ridley Fourth Estate, 328pp, £18.99
ISBN 1841157457
The Future of Human Nature
Jurgen Habermas Polity, 136pp, £13.99
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The God of the gaps. The rise of fundamentalism has given credibility to the view of religion as a retreat from reason. So is faith anything more than a refuge of the ignorant? By Edward Skidelsky
- 10 March 2003
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion
John Haldane Duckworth, 224pp, £12.99
ISBN 0715628674
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State of nature. Edward Skidelsky on the "greatest living" British philosopher's quest for truth in an age of relativism
- 18 November 2002
Truth and Truthfulness
Bernard Williams Princeton UP, pp328, £19.95
ISBN 0691102767
