“... one’ – a subject about which Chaudhuri has written. In fact, he stages an act of fictional self-erasure when his narrator becomes so involved in Berlin that he loses his sense of self. He becomes a conduit, open to the intimations of the past within Berlin’s present:I don’t feel anxious because the streets are ...”

“... apart.For the woman, Greek is ‘a language as cold and hard as a pillar of ice … a supremely self-sufficient language’. That self-sufficiency is captured in a lesson on ‘a third voice’, neither active nor passive, ‘which we call the middle voice’, expressing ‘an action that relates to the subject ...”

“... In Lotto Britain, the Good Life is the life they have on Love Island, an endless parade of self-tanning and nail extensions, gym sessions and Prosecco.When the Sunday Times Rich List was first published, in 1989, the person at number one was the queen. At the time, she was worth £5.2 billion, and it seemed logical, in a farcical, doilies-and-teacups ...”

“... she remarks, ‘above the Black and Brown, but below the White. Obedient. Docile. Abject.’ If self-hatred and status consciousness aren’t enough to keep such a buffer in place, the police will do it: a cop in a prominent hate crime investigation ‘has been promoting anti-Chinese T-shirts on Facebook: “Covid-19 imported virus from Chy-na”. I don’t ...”

“... with a sharp, Mondrian-like orthogonality. Nikita Sena Quarshie in the show catalogue compares the self-possession with which these men are brimming to ‘the itutu or mystic coolness of the Yoruba’ – a compliment to Marshall, who likes to point upwards to West African forms of thought. For Greg Tate, De Style’s males and their female analogues in School ...”

“... of her husband are at present the only substantial sources of information about her. Female self-assertion was not especially prized in the claustrophobic academic world of the 1930s and 1940s – least of all when conjoined with unladylike frankness. Though difficult to live with, her furies seem to have coexisted with a certain majesty and ...”

“... children.’ And pessimists are even sillier, with their ‘odd apocalyptic panics’ and ‘self-certain and self-fulfilling predictions’. In any case, neither Anthropocene nor Capitalocene leaves room for all the other species with which anthropos shares the planet. The omission, Haraway believes, ‘saps our ...”

“... that part of it, in particular, which is premised on conceptions of the divided or multiple self and can be referred to as the literature of romantic duality. One of the books is fiction – of a kind, however, which is often investigated for its affinity to fact; while the other records the facts and feelings and constructions of the biographer of a ...”

“... being, sublate his will into a necessity that governs accident and ordains significance. His old self will fall away, together with the vexation of innumerable wearying claims on his attention by contingent beings whom love has not so justified, and he will be saved, perhaps even deified. All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall ...”

“... for his absent father during her pregnancy. Towards the end of the period a more confident self-assertion can be detected, especially among the upper classes: French police records mention a chevalier caught cruising in 1720s Paris, who attacked the policemen with his sword and then threatened to have the senior officer dismissed, ‘adding further ...”

“... Varda’s preference for ‘the artisanal over the mass-produced’. Varda was an obsessive self-archivist (with a particular love of postcards), yet Rickey does not seem to have had access to any personal correspondence, diaries or scrapbooks. She draws much of her material from Varda’s memoir, Varda par Agnès (1994), which was later adapted into ...”

“... sanity with one of his friends leading to Nietzsche’s hospitalisation in 1889. Burckhardt’s self-deprecation may not always have been in earnest, but he was modest enough to see that the philosopher’s effusiveness had crossed a line. ‘There is nothing in the world I fear more,’ he wrote, ‘than being overestimated.’ Reading Greek Cultural ...”

“... would make his literary reputation. The descendant of non-practising German Jews and of a Swedish self-converted Jewish grandfather, Nelson Algren Abraham grew up among the Chicago Catholic working class and not in an immigrant Jewish community. Although he dropped the name Abraham in the Forties, inside his tough guy persona was a Jewish boy – like the one ...”

“... here who ‘had not turned to Christ’. His message scathed me like a searchlight. With the self-consciousness of adolescence, it was always I who had not turned to Christ. The fear produced slyness, or suspicion. I noted that no sick person was ever healed of anything, despite the laying on of hands, the prayers. Indeed, one of the kindest and gentlest ...”

“... stabilisation of a wretchedly abused and fractured society seems extraordinarily illogical, even self-defeating. Commentators seeking to make sense of it are now filling the bookstores with volumes devoted to the American ‘empire’. But how appropriate is this evocative term? Michael Mann has been working for two decades as ‘a historical sociologist on ...”