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“... he succeeded Elizabeth; a second volume taking up the story from 1603 is promised. Meanwhile, Gareth Russell’s Queen James is an intimate biography of the ‘particular’ man, told through the men James loved. The result is a provocative study, if much less salacious than the title (taken from an anonymous joke of 1623) suggests. Jackson and ...”

“... rescued no maidens; he did not even have the adventures life allotted to other philosophers like Russell, who went to jail, or Wittgenstein, who went to war.’ The main outlines of his public life are well-known, and Levy’s assiduous research reveals few surprises about his private life. Though Moore married rather late in life, and formed close ...”

“... Gareth Evans died of cancer when he was barely 34 years of age. He had been working on this book for several years; the task of completing it from his notes was carried out by John McDowell. (The first two chapters and the introduction were rewritten by Evans himself in the last months of his life.) Evans’s death at such an early age is a tragedy ...”

“... trained intellectuals – Hogben, Postgate, the Pauls, Dobb and others – who after reading Russell found it hard to contain their irritation at the reverence for Dietzgen. Finally, caught between the undemanding notion of knowledge current within Labour socialism and the increasingly brusque subordination of intellectual culture to the immediate needs ...”

“... of their subject and a common belief that the method of analysis they had learned from Frege, Russell, Moore and Wittgenstein constituted a great advance over previous ways of doing philosophy and over the techniques of their Continental rivals. Nowhere is this confidence better epitomised than in the notorious paper delivered by Ryle at the conference on ...”

“... Subjects. A number of philosophers think that the most interesting essay in the book is Gareth Evans’s ‘Things Without The Mind – A Commentary upon Chapter Two of Strawson’s Individuals’: Evans, who died last year at the age of 34, was a former pupil of Strawson’s. (It is, incidentally, a pity that there is no contribution from ...”

“... in the strongly divergent views that later Marxists have held in this respect. As observed by Russell Jacoby, this also corresponds to a dual strain in Hegel himself – a tension between the Phenomenology of Mind and the Science of Logic. To embrace the latter has usually involved a commitment to a pseudo-scientific version of Marxism, in which one could ...”

“... offer examples of Prince’s borrowings from the Criterion, but viewed from this angle the Pope of Russell Square himself comes to resemble the all-powerful patron whom the aspirant artist is skilfully wooing by ingesting and recasting his doctrines and preferred idioms. Memoirs in Oxford is also frank – too frank for Hill, who complains that the poem is ...”

“... The serenity treats religion as if it were, almost self-evidently, nonsense – think of Stendhal, Russell, even Hume. For Stendhal, the priests are hypocrites, therefore religion is a lot of hypocritical nonsense. Nietzsche is the great wild exception to this, and Camus the great calm exception: both, in their intense dismantling, meet the true challenge of ...”