Caution, not conviction
A Brief History of Western Philosophy
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Cracks in the foundations of an historical enigma
Imperial Power and Popular Politics
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist whose maxim was "Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait.": " This is the story of...
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Great minds that thought differently
From Poliziano to Machiavelli
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No need for a depression
The Return of Depression Economics
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Sowers of the seeds of doubt
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volumes One and Two
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Story teller versus history man
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
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The secret republic
Writing the English Republic
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A day of total luna-see
The two minutes next Wednesday when the sun istotally obscured by the moon will be watched by scientists worldwide. But this could be the first eclipse that teaches us nothing new about the sun. John...
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Shadows of days gone by
A day of total luna-see: Of all the thousands of eclipses studied by scientists, the most important was the eclipse of 1919, writes Simon Singh. It provided clinching evidence in favour of one of the...
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What are the facts behind the super fictions?
Are superfictions art or are their creators just fooling themselves? Peter Hill speaks for the defence. The storm that has been raging in the teacups of British newspapers about the self-proclaimed "...
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Building cosmic visions
Charles Jencks believes that a new architecture is emerging, one based at the cutting edge of chaos theory. John Kelleher reports. The new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is casting long shadows in the...
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Higher Channels
John Davies puts on his viewing glasses (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the Week TV programmes on major European philosophers are about as common as total eclipses, so as well as scanning the...
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Shadows of days gone by
A day of total luna-see: * Records of eclipses can be found in the ancient histories of Babylon, East Asia, Europe and Arabia. * The oldest report of a total eclipse is dated July 17, 709BC. * A...
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Who'll pay to play God?
Anthropologist Paul Rabinow spent much of 1994 observing French genetic scientists in their doomed attempt to strike a deal with a US biotech laboratory. Stalling points included ownership,...