After Pooh
After Pooh And after Pooh, there was Piglet. If Winnie-the-Pooh was to offer an introduction to the world of Western philosophy, then his shy [...]
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03, 2025
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02, 2025
Journey to the East
DD60 – The Journey to the East I first came across Hermann Hesse’s short story, The Journey to the East, reading a book by [...]
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12, 2024
Is Beauty natural
Is beauty natural? In 1833, two years into his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, a 24-year-old Charles Darwin wrote to his sister Catherine, entreating her [...]
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12, 2024
The End of Time
The End of Time Nearly a quarter of a century later, it is hard to recall all the excitement – and angst – that [...]
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12, 2024
What Happened to Class
What Happened to Class? When I was growing up in the UK, class was an accepted feature of the social world. It wasn’t so [...]
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11, 2024
Fionavar
Fionavar Re-reading The Summer Tree, the first book in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Trilogy is both a delight and a puzzle. The delight I’ll [...]
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11, 2024
Descarte’s Error
Descartes’ Error I can’t remember why, back in 1995, I bought a copy of Antonio Damasio’s book, Descartes’ Error. Was it the cover, with [...]
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11, 2024
Pooh
Pooh This is an ‘unpublished book review’ from late 1964?? It would have been something to submit it to the Carleton Miscellany that year, [...]
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11, 2024
The Culture of the New Capitalism
The Culture of the New Capitalism It is often hard to explain – to oneself and to others – why you are drawn to [...]
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11, 2024
Bees and Their Keepers
Bees and Their Keepers Once more in my life, I am indebted to Wikipedia. Among the many delights to be found in this online [...]
