Immoralist
Jose Harris, 1 December 1983
John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920
by Robert Skidelsky.
Macmillan, 447 pp., £14.95, November 1983,0 333 11599 6 Show More
by Robert Skidelsky.
Macmillan, 447 pp., £14.95, November 1983,
“... convention can be reconciled with his admiration for that most ‘conventional’ of philosophers, Edmund Burke. One is left wondering at times whether Keynes’s affirmations of nihilism were not merely expressions of a delayed adolescent desire to shock: Cambridge ‘clever-clever’ rather than serious moral conviction. Nevertheless, this first volume ... ”