Elizabeth Spelman

Elizabeth Spelman teaches philosophy at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is working on a slim book exploring the nature of abundance.

Letter

Mistakes

9 October 2003

By what mysterious forces did the subtitle of my book morph from ‘The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World’ to ‘The Impulse to Destroy a Damaged World (LRB, 9 October)? No doubt it was due either to someone at the BBC or Blair et cie, but still a bit puzzling!
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