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Vol. 22 No. 2   ·   20 January 2000

Mitteleuropa am Aldwych

Ian Hacking writes about ‘For and against method, including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence’

  • For and against Method: including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence by Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend, edited by Matteo Motterlini

The Jubilee Line Extension

Andrew Saint on the Jubilee Line Extension

Alan Bennett

Letters

Paul Seabright, Brian Fewster, C.A. Bayly, David Gilmour, Murray Biggs, Perry Anderson, David Cronin, Neil Wilson, Paul Trewhela, James Thomson

John Ashbery

Jonathan Rée: Collingwood

  • An Essay on Metaphysics by R.G. Collingwood, edited by Rex Martin
  • The New Leviathan by R.G. Collingwood, edited by David Boucher
  • The Principles of History by R.G. Collingwood, edited by W.H. Dray and W.J. van der Dussen

Frank Kermode: Raban at Sea

  • Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Rabin

Lawrence Rainey: Grim Modernism

  • Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by T.J. Clark

Jeremy Waldron: Hobbes

  • Reason and Rhetoric in the Philsophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner

Barbara Newman: Hildegard of Bingen

  • Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen edited by Sabina Flanagan
  • The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Vol. II translated by Joseph Baird
  • Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources edited by Anna Silvas
  • Physica by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Priscilla Throop
  • On Natural Philosophy and Medicine by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Margret Berger

Rosemary Hill: Frocks

  • The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Fashion Writing edited by Judith Watt
  • Twentieth-Century Fashion by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye
  • A Century of Fashion by François Baudot
  • The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 by Christopher Breward
  • Black in Fashion by Valerie Mendes

Nicholas Penny: Douglas Cooper

  • The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson

Martin Harrison

John Allen Paulos: Born to Count

  • The Mathematical Brain by Brian Butterworth

Mark Mazower: Quisling

  • Quisling: A Study in Treachery by Hans Fredrik Dahl, translated by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife

Stefan Collini: Arnold

  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. I: 1829-59 edited by Cecil Lang
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. II: 1860-65 edited by Cecil Lang
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. III: 1866-70 edited by Cecil Lang

John Sutherland: Thackeray

  • Thackeray by D.J. Taylor

Elizabeth Lowry: ‘Triomf’

  • Triomf by Marlene van Niekerk, translated by Leon de Kock

Patrick McGuinness: Donald Davie

  • With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry by Donald Davie

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Mitteleuropa am Aldwych
Ian Hacking writes about ‘For and against method, including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence’

The Jubilee Line Extension
Andrew Saint on the Jubilee Line Extension