- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (11 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333772725
- ISBN-13: 978-0333772720
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,336,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the reviews of Enemies of Hope:
'Tallis...is a high achiever with a range of expertise that would leave Jonathan Miller gasping' - Walter Eltis, The Sunday Times
'As its title and length indicate, this is a Big Book. It is written, nevertheless, in a clear, accessible, unpretentious and often witty style. And as anyone familiar with Raymond Tallis's other similar works knows, it has important things to say..
...there is about his panoptic sweep an intrepidity, a candour and open-mindedness, a gameness for anything, a total lack of vanity or self-importance, and a generous hatred of cant, that are extremely engaging. Every page of Enemies of Hope is lit by its author's characteristic wisdom and luminous intelligence, and by flashes of novel, striking insight. That alone is an much as to say, read it.' - Robert Grant, The Times Literary Supplement
'Brilliantly argued and with a wide range of erudition' - Nicholas Kochan, The Financial Times
'Tallis...is a high achiever with a range of expertise that would leave Jonathan Miller gasping' - Walter Eltis, The Sunday Times
'As its title and length indicate, this is a Big Book. It is written, nevertheless, in a clear, accessible, unpretentious and often witty style. And as anyone familiar with Raymond Tallis's other similar works knows, it has important things to say..
...there is about his panoptic sweep an intrepidity, a candour and open-mindedness, a gameness for anything, a total lack of vanity or self-importance, and a generous hatred of cant, that are extremely engaging. Every page of Enemies of Hope is lit by its author's characteristic wisdom and luminous intelligence, and by flashes of novel, striking insight. That alone is an much as to say, read it.' - Robert Grant, The Times Literary Supplement
'Brilliantly argued and with a wide range of erudition' - Nicholas Kochan, The Financial Times
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The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking commentary. From nihilism to Theorrhoea, from literary theory to the role of the unconscious, The Raymond Tallis Reader guides us through the panoptic sweep of Tallis's critical insights and reveals a way of thinking for the twenty-first century.
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The Raymond Tallis Reader is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of one of Britain's most fascinating intellectuals - if not Britain's most fascinating intellectual. The topics Tallis' addresses covers everything from Wittgenstein's contributions to philosophy, the failure of the post-Saussurean thinkers to critique realism, the importance of science, the dismal phenomenon of Theorrhoea and the problems of both the existentialist conception the utterly free self and the Postmodern/Poststructuralist/Structuralist/Reductive Materialist/Marxist/Freudian/etc. conception of the self as almost or entirely fictional - Tallis sees both as being grounded in the same mistake, i.e. taking particular truths and extending them until they become untruths.
My only major contention with Tallis is his aesthetics, which, whilst correct in dismissing the absolutist claim that all art is propaganda and has a moral responsibility, goes too far in seeing art as only viable as a purely aesthetic endeavour - this is indeed viable, but not, in my view, the sole possible goal of art. There is a comparison between this error, I believe, and Tallis' position that both existentialists and postmodernists go too far with limited, particular truths.
Overall this is a fascinating and enlightening read embedded with Tallis' refreshing sense of optimism in an intellectual climate of pessimism. Tallis is an heir of the enlightenment - learning from its mistakes and endeavouring to build on its accomplishments.
My only major contention with Tallis is his aesthetics, which, whilst correct in dismissing the absolutist claim that all art is propaganda and has a moral responsibility, goes too far in seeing art as only viable as a purely aesthetic endeavour - this is indeed viable, but not, in my view, the sole possible goal of art. There is a comparison between this error, I believe, and Tallis' position that both existentialists and postmodernists go too far with limited, particular truths.
Overall this is a fascinating and enlightening read embedded with Tallis' refreshing sense of optimism in an intellectual climate of pessimism. Tallis is an heir of the enlightenment - learning from its mistakes and endeavouring to build on its accomplishments.
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