Geoffrey Hawthorn

Geoffrey Hawthorn has just retired as a professor of politics at Cambridge.

In the LRB Archive:

• Anti-Magician: Max Weber · 27 August 2009

  • Max Weber: A Biography by Joachim Radkau, translated by Patrick Camiller

• Things Keep Happening: Histories of Histories · 20 November 2008

  • A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the 20th Century by John Burrow
  • What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton
  • The Theft of History by Jack Goody
  • Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History by Darien Shanske

• Baseball’s Loss: The Unstoppable Hugo Chávez · 1 November 2007

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali
  • Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today by D.L. Raby
  • Venezuela: Hugo Chavez’s Revolution, Latin America Report No. 19 by International Crisis Group

• Hayek and His Overcoat · 1 October 1998

  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
  • The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw

• Top of the Class · 8 May 1997

  • The State Nobility by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Lauretta Clough

• ‘The difficulties of governance now are dauntingly stupendous’ · 18 July 1996

  • India’s Economic Reforms 1991-2001 by Vijay Joshi and I.M.D. Little

• Diary · 2 November 1995

• Hyenas, Institutions and God · 20 July 1995

  • The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle

• Diary · 9 June 1994

• Capitalism without Capital · 26 May 1994

  • The Endangered American Dream: How to Stop the United States from Becoming a Third World Country and Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy by Edward Luttwak
  • Japan’s Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond by Shigeto Tsuru

• Listen to the women · 21 October 1993

  • An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution by Partha Dasgupta

• False Alarm · 13 May 1993

  • Preparing for the 21st Century by Paul Kennedy

• Post-Nationalism · 3 December 1992

  • English Questions by Perry Anderson
  • A Zone of Engagement by Perry Anderson

• Goosey-Goosey · 28 May 1992

  • Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre

• Schumpeter the Superior · 27 February 1992

  • Joseph Schumpeter: His Life and Work by Richard Swedberg
  • Joseph Schumpeter: Scholar, Teacher and Politician by Eduard März

• Bitten by the love geist · 30 January 1992

  • Scheler by Francis Dunlop

• Poor George · 7 March 1991

  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin

• Top Dog · 6 December 1990

  • Nippon, New Superpower: Japan since 1945 by William Horsley and Roger Buckley
  • United Nations Human Development Report 1990 by Mahbub al Haq
  • Nationalism and International Society by James Mayall
  • The International Relations of Japan edited by Kathleen Newland

• Someone else’s shoes · 23 November 1989

  • A Treatise on Social Justice. Volume I: Theories of Justice by Brian Barry
  • Innocence and Experience by Stuart Hampshire

• Informals of the world unite · 9 November 1989

  • The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World by Hernando de Soto, translated by June Abbott
  • Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru by Edmundo Morales
  • A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present by Rondo Cameron

• Staying in power · 7 January 1988

  • Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era by Peter Jenkins
  • De-Industrialisation and Foreign Trade by R.E. Rowthorn and J.R. Wells

• The Wrong Way Round · 17 September 1987

  • Rival Views of Market Society, and Other Recent Essays by Albert Hirschman
  • Development, Democracy and the Art of Trespassing: Essays in Honour of Albert Hirschman edited by Alejandro Foxley, Michael McPherson and Guillermo O’Donnell

• Diary · 20 November 1986

• Sociology in Cambridge · 6 November 1986

• What’s wrong with the SDP? · 21 November 1985

  • Capitalism and Social Democracy by Adam Przeworksi

• Hegel’s Odyssey · 3 October 1985

  • Hegel: The Letters translated by Clark Butler and Christine Seiler

• Initiatives · 15 November 1984

  • Social Scientist as Innovator by Michael Young
  • Revolution from Within: Co-operatives and Co-operation in British Industry by Michael Young and Marianne Rigge
  • Dilemmas of Liberal Democracies: Studies in Fred Hirsch’s ‘Social Limits to Growth’ edited by Adrian Ellis and Krishan Kumar

• What would socialism be like? · 1 March 1984

  • In the Tracks of Historical Materialism by Perry Anderson
  • The Dialectics of Disaster by Ronald Aronson
  • Rethinking Socialism by Gavin Kitching
  • The Economics of Feasible Socialism by Alec Nove
  • The Labour Party in Crisis by Paul Whiteley

• Lord Vaizey sees the light · 20 October 1983

  • In Breach of Promise by John Vaizey

• The Moral Life of Barbarians · 18 August 1983

  • The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology by Anthony Pagden

• Reasons · 1 April 1983

  • A Treatise on Social Theory, Vol. I: The Methodology of Social Theory by W.G. Runciman

• Sexual Subjects · 21 October 1982

  • The Sexual Fix by Stephen Heath
  • Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath
  • ‘Sight and Sound’: A 50th-Anniversary Selection edited by David Wilson

• Facts of Life · 1 July 1982

  • Ethology by Robert Hinde
  • Social Anthropology by Edmund Leach
  • Religion by Leszek Kolakowski
  • Historical Sociology by Philip Abrams

• Green Films · 1 April 1982

  • Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell

• Ideal Speech · 19 November 1981

  • Hegel contra Sociology by Gillian Rose
  • The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School by George Friedman
  • Metacritique by Garbis Kortian, translated by John Raffan
  • The Idea of a Critical Theory by Raymond Geuss
  • The Politics of Social Theory by Russell Keat
  • Critical Hermeneutics by John Thompson
  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences by Paul Ricoeur, translated by John Thompson

• Academic Psychology · 18 June 1981

  • Human Groups and Social Categories: Studies in Social Psychology by Henri Tajfel

• Participation in America · 6 November 1980

  • Authority by Richard Sennett

• Pareto and Elitism · 3 July 1980

  • The Other Pareto edited by Placido Bucolo
  • Elitism by G. Lowell Field and John Higley
  • Elites in Australia by John Higley and Don Smart

• Daughters, Dress Shirts, Spotted Dick · 3 April 1980

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