“... labour, between managerial and directly productive functions etc. Thus the degree of workers’ self-management would be a feature of the material relations of production. Within Cohen’s scheme these material relations of production are assigned to a kind of conceptual limbo. They are distinguished from the ‘relations of production’ proper, which are ...”

“... been striven for. But, within, there existed, in Mr Wain’s phrase, ‘a heavily protected inner self that no one ever saw’, or no one except perhaps a friend or two of forty years’ standing. It is in Surprised by Joy that this dichotomy is most strikingly exhibited. The book is an autobiography and aims, Lewis says, at telling the story of his ...”

“... former believe that describing the facts of English usage is in itself a worthy, interesting and self-validating academic endeavour, whereas the latter feel that just describing the facts without attempting to ‘explain’ them in more general terms is unscientific. For the former, the English language is unique. For the latter, the English language is just ...”

“... Kerouac set in almost immediately – the King of the Beats wavered alarmingly between bitter self-disgust and wild exhibitionist boasting. Unwilling to stand so close to the spectacle of disintegration or to compete with relentless groupies, Johnson finally broke off the relationship in the autumn of 1958. Minor Characters is much more than a ...”

“... their brothers-in-law ‘can only be explained by the modern neurosis which makes child-bearing a self-centred activity, relating principally to the narcissism of the individuals involved’. Extracts from Sex and Destiny were published recently in the press, which gives a cue for how the book may be used fruitfully. It collapses as a sustained argument, but ...”

“... conventionalists to have felt that than the idealists.’ Forster’s reply included his standard self-deprecation – ‘one’s confused little mind is visited by impulses of beauty, whereas systematic thought can only come to the mind that is both strong and orderly’ – but it took up the point about the house: ‘The house certainly would not appeal so ...”

“... came from outer space during the Blitz. He (‘it’, one should say) has the power of apostolic self-perpetuation: if he can touch a human in his dying moments, he will migrate, displacing his host’s personality. His first incarnation is spent in the body of a boy orphaned by the London bombs. He (‘they’? – SF can pose irritating pronominal ...”

“... chosen by Hofstadter and Dennett because they illuminate in one way or another the problems of self-reference, personal identity, consciousness, and the relations between language, mind and brain. The editors have, as they put it, ‘arranged and composed’ the pieces, and they have provided for each an engaging ‘reflection’ or commentary. Although ...”

“... circle, resembled a grimacing Magwitch by half-time. Paul Mariner, a picture of pampered, hammy self-love at club level, reminded me, as he trudged from the park, of the standard, traumatically chinless mod who puts in depressingly regular appearances at South Coast magistrates’ courts after Bank Holiday weekends. Trevor Francis, usually the identikit ...”

“... prohibitions. The climate of life is hostile and punitive. Competitiveness, orderliness, self-control, gravity – these are Puritan values that became part of his being. There can be no doubt that Newton’s unusual personality contributed a great deal to his way of life and perhaps to his scientific assumptions. Manuel has brought this before us ...”

“... another matter. In the case of Balfour I doubt it. The outstanding features of his psychology were self-containment and fear of emotion, and there is no need to enter the bedroom to find them. As his first biographer, Blanche Dugdale, wrote in 1936, ‘his power of becoming aloof at will was perhaps the most important thing for an understanding of his ...”

“... regarded the state as a means by which the less fortunate among us could be enabled to achieve the self-expression and moral fulfilment which is their right as creatures made in God’s image’, now writes: ‘Of all lessons the one which history most earnestly presses upon us and which we most persistently brush aside is “Beware the state!” ’ And he ...”

“... electricity and hypnotism) and with drugs; both saw themselves as caged elemental beings – ‘self-incaged’ in Coleridge’s honest phrase to Godwin in 1802. Both had views on monogamy, loving women other than their wives. Whether Shelley, if he had lived, would have lost his charm, as Coleridge did, we cannot know. That charm, anyway, we have to take ...”

“... IRA and the Catholics, first in the ranks of the B-Specials, then in the RUC. This rigid, angry, self-loving man achieved his apotheosis at Buckingham Palace when he received his MBE. I, his grandson, look at the photographs of this occasion and can see only a flunky. I remember this man shouting at my mother, mocking her for her religion and her persistence ...”

“... books. Not for her, on the other hand – at least in this book – the existential doubts and self-questionings of the ethnographer. Half etiquette book, half ‘anatomy’, as sheer voracious and triumphant encyclopedism this brimming book could, however, hardly be bettered. In reading it one feels oneself to be observing the Chinese Scustom of attending ...”