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Why practice doesn't make perfect . Simon Blackburn claims the foundations of truth lie in our everyday practices of judging and criticising. Edward Skidelsky is unconvinced by a very British assumption
23 May 2005

Truth: a guide for the perplexed

Simon Blackburn Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 238pp, £14.99<

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The adventure of reason
01 January 2005

Philosophy - Edward Skidelsky has his soul comforted by the ruminations of a Berlin discussion group

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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

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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 The terrors of hell have been replaced by the terrors of social and sexual failure.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, £

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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 idea
16 August 2004

Motherland: a philosophical history of Russia

Lesley Chamberlain Atlantic Books, 331pp, £25

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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 0674

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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

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The tyranny of the topical
12 May 2003

Lives of the Mind: the use and abuse of intelligence, from Hegel to Wodehouse

Roger Kimball Iv

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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

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