Edward Skidelsky
Articles by Edward Skidelsky
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In defence of drugs. LSD, cocaine, opium: they are all just a bore, though good for relaxation and socialising. How did we ever come to invest them with such demonic properties? By Edward Skidelsky
- 30 April 2001
Dope Girls: the birth of the British drug underground Marek Kohn Granta, 208pp, £8.99 ISBN 1862074062 Acid Dreams: the complete social history of LSD Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain Pan Books, 384pp, £9.99
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Beware the false prophet. George Steiner is celebrated and reviled in equal measure. Is he the most influential critic of his generation, as some say, or merely a fraud? Edward Skidelsky weighs the evidence
- 19 March 2001
Grammars of Creation George Steiner Faber & Faber, 288pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571206816
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Fall into reason. Edward Skidelsky on Freud the theologian, a spinner of secular myths
- 25 December 2000
Freud: darkness in the midst of vision Louis Breger John Wiley, 472pp, £19.99 ISBN 0471316288 The Secret Artist: a close reading of Sigmund Freud Lesley Chamberlain Quartet Books, 339pp, £12.50
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The ethics of the sand pile. History stands poised on the brink of catastrophe. The very existence of the human race is precarious. Edward Skidelsky is awed by the implications of a radical new physics
- 30 October 2000
Ubiquity: the science of history . . . or why the world is simpler than we think Mark Buchanan Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 230pp, £20 ISBN 0297643762
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The impossibility of love. Edward Skidelsky on the failure and despair of Bertrand Russell
- 09 October 2000
Bertrand Russell 1921-70: The Ghost of Madness Ray Monk Jonathan Cape, 574pp, £25 ISBN 0224051725
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Knowing too much. Philosophy as practised by the great thinkers of the past is at an end. So is philosophy no more than a word for a certain manner of being confused? By Edward Skidelsky
- 14 August 2000
The Great Philosophers: from Socrates to Turing Edited by Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 470pp, £20 ISBN 0297645900
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The clash of civilisations. The countries of eastern Europe are less the products of Orthodoxy than of communism. Even when they ignore their communist heritage, they are captive to it. By Edward Skidelsky
- 17 July 2000
Why Angels Fall: a journey through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo Victoria Clark Macmillan, 460pp, £18.99 ISBN 033375185X
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State of the union. The European elite's commitment to federalism is a smokescreen behind which lurks a bureaucratic state, writes Edward Skidelsky
- 26 June 2000
Democracy in Europe Larry Siedentop Penguin, 254pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713994029
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Nonsense upon stilts. Animals are the last great "victim class". Edward Skidelsky finds the arguments for animal rights sentimental, self-serving and intellectually unsound
- 05 June 2000
Animal Rights and Wrongs Roger Scruton Metro, 206pp, £12.99 ISBN 1898309191 Animal Revolution: changing attitudes to speciesism Richard D Ryder Berg, 294pp, £14.99 Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement Peter Singer Rowman & Littlefield, 237pp, £17.95 Animal Rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800 Hilda Kean Reaktion Books, 272pp, £9.95
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Spirit in the sky. Fundamentalism in the 20th century has been to religion what fascism has been to patriotism. Edward Skidelsky looks at the ugly growth of an un-Godly fanaticism
- 08 May 2000
The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Karen Armstrong HarperCollins, 442pp, £19.99 ISBN 0002555239
