Malcolm Bull

Malcolm Bull’s most recent book is The Concept of the Social.

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Alex Danchev is wrong to suggest that the only evidence of Braque’s reactionary political tendencies is Douglas Cooper’s table talk, as relayed by John Richardson (Letters, 3 April). Others said the same thing. Max Ernst complained to his son that the world was full of the ‘pimps of fascism’: ‘Poor Dalí, he pretends that he is insane and that this entitles him to see mystery in royalty and...
Letter
Alex Danchev is wrong to suggest that the only evidence of Braque’s reactionary political tendencies is Douglas Cooper’s table talk, as relayed by John Richardson (Letters, 3 April). Others said the same thing. Max Ernst complained to his son that the world was full of the ‘pimps of fascism’: ‘Poor Dalí, he pretends that he is insane and that this entitles him to see mystery in royalty and...
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Evan Riley claims that John Rawls ‘plainly rejects’ the idea that it is legitimate to ‘threaten to use nuclear weapons against civilian populations’ (Letters, 9 March). Yet, in The Law of Peoples, Rawls writes that ‘so long as there are outlaw states … some nuclear weapons need to be retained to keep those states at bay and to make sure they do not obtain and use those weapons against liberal...

Does marmalade exist?

Terry Eagleton, 27 January 2022

Because the social world is constructed, Malcolm Bull’s sceptical stance can be transformative. You can ‘make less’ of society, in the sense of questioning its apparently inexorable laws; and if...

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Malcolm Bull has written a formidable handbook, for which, I predict, many scholars and lovers of Renaissance art will never forgive him. What he has to say in the end about the revival of the...

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