Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? - Prospect
WEBIn her concise and authoritative new book, Clare Carlisle seeks to rescue Spinoza from those who peddle misconceptions—on all sides. A professor of philosophy at King’s College London and author of a recent biography of Søren Kierkegaard, Carlisle also edited George Eliot’s translation of the Ethics last year. She argues that Spinoza was a profound and subtle writer on religion; to box ...
The World’s Top Thinkers 2024: ideas for a world on the brink
WEBDec 6, 2023 · On the theme of freedom, our thinkers put forward contentious ideas: that the history of the British Empire is “morally mixed”; that the greatest threat from cancel culture isn’t to freedom of speech; that the left has much in common with the reactionary right; that liberals have paved the right’s way to power; and that homophobia in Uganda, where repressive legislation was passed in ...
The madness of his method: behind the singular talent of
WEBFeb 18, 2018 · After graduating in 1979, his breakthrough film role came in Stephen Frears’s My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), playing gay punk Johnny, the lover and business partner of a young man of Pakistani heritage. Day-Lewis arrived at the audition equipped with bleached hair—he was playing an albino Count Dracula in a fringe production on stage at the time—and the south London accent he had ...
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020 - Prospect
WEBJul 14, 2020 · A s Prospect revisits the task of identifying the leading minds of the moment, in the intellectual hit parade which we have produced in varying formats since 2004, that test of immediate and real-world relevance looms large. A s we compiled our longlist—drawing on the advice of distinguished experts in various fields who have written for us over the years—and then whittled it down towards ...
About us - Prospect
WEBProspect was launched in 1995 by David Goodhart, an ex-FT journalist who became the magazine’s first editor, Derek Coombs, a former Conservative MP who would become its founding chairman, and Charles Seaford, Prospect’s first publisher.Since then the magazine has grown and evolved—but the words of its first editorial still capture its essence: “Standing back from the scrum, Prospect ...
The surprising history of “Rule, Britannia!” and Last ... - Prospect
WEBAug 26, 2020 · The prime minister has called the decision to remove the lyrics from renditions of “Rule, Britannia!” and “Land of Hope and Glory” at Last Night of the Proms “wet” and a “cringing embarrassment.”
Looking at the world as a whole: Mary Midgley, 1919-2018
WEBOct 23, 2018 · Just a few weeks before her death in October, Mary Midgley agreed to meet and discuss her new book, What Is Philosophy For?It seemed astonishing that someone about to celebrate her 99 th birthday had a new book out, but I was less in awe of that than the reputation of one of the most important British philosophers of …
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Fiction Books of the Year: 2023 - Prospect
WEBDec 24, 2023 · Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, tr. Ann Goldstein (Pushkin Press). First published in Italy in 1952 and written by one of the country’s then most successful and widely translated authors—de Céspedes was an Italian-Cuban anti-fascist novelist, poet and screenwriter—but out of print for decades, this electric novel in diary entries explores one woman’s discontent in post-war Rome.
Why Birmingham is a multicultural success story - Prospect
WEBMar 5, 2019 · By 2016, more than 1.1m people lived in Birmingham. Thanks to sharp growth in its population since the millennium, the city is larger now than it was during the industrial heyday of the 1960s.