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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 14   ·   19 July 2001

Invented Communities

David Runciman: post-nationalism

  • Democracy in Europe by Larry Siedentop  Buy this book
  • The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Max Pensky

Letters

Keith Kyle, Anthony Arblaster, Edmund Epstein, Keith Hughes, Norman Cantor, Salah el Serafy, Sheridan Morley, John Ashbery, Henry Hardy, P. Le Pelley, Colin Honnor, Alistair Watson, Ward Lloyd, John Tilleard

The Antagoniser’s Agoniser

Peter Clarke on Keith Joseph

  • Keith Joseph by Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett

Colin Kidd

  • Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild

Cosmic Ambition

Edward Said on J.S. Bach

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff

At Condor Cycles

Peter Campbell: The Tour

Tom Paulin

  • Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions by Maximilian Novak
  • Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe edited by W.R. Owens and P.N. Furbank

Short Cuts

Jeremy Harding: Milosevic is delivered to the Hague

No High Heels in Paradise

Keith Thomas on John Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum

  • Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens by John Evelyn, edited by John Ingram

Linda Colley

  • The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage

Adam Phillips

  • Speak You Also: A Survivor’s Reckoning by Paul Steinberg, translated by Linda Coverdale

Iain Bamforth

August Kleinzahler

  • Eternal Monday: New and Selected Poems by György Petri, translated by Clive Wilmer

Peter Lipton

  • The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-93 by Thomas Kuhn, edited by James Conant and John Haugeland
  • Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times by Steve Fuller

J. Hoberman

  • Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence
  • Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux by J. Ronald Green

Christopher Tayler

  • The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy

Inga Clendinnen

Contributors

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Featured articles

Invented Communities
David Runciman: post-nationalism

The Antagoniser’s Agoniser
Peter Clarke on Keith Joseph

Cosmic Ambition
Edward Said on J.S. Bach

No High Heels in Paradise
Keith Thomas on John Evelyn’s Elysium Britannicum

At Condor Cycles
Peter Campbell: The Tour

Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding: Milosevic is delivered to the Hague