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The Raymond Tallis Reader (Paperback)

by Raymond Tallis (Author), Michael Grant (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 382 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 754,891 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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This text provides a comprehensive survey of the often controversial thinker Raymond Tallis. From nihilism, Theorrhoea and literary theory, to the role of the unconscious, it guides the reader through the panoptic sweep of Tallis' critical insights, revealing a way of thinking for the 21st century. The works are supplemented by a detailed introduction and linking commentary.


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RAYMOND TALLIS trained as a doctor at the University of Oxford and St. Thomas's hospital. Since 1987 he has been Professor and a consultant physician in Health Care of the Elderly in Salford. Over the last fifteen years, he has written extensively outside of medicine. He has published short stories and poetry and been (?) for his critiques of post-Saussurean thought, his reflections on art and science and his discussions of the philosophy of mind. He was recently described in The Times Education Supplement as 'one of the most intriguing figures in the current intellectual scene'. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Hull in 1997 for his contributions to literary scholarship. - MICHAEL GRANT is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1982) and Dead Ringers (1997).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Optimism in an intellectual climate of pessimism, 6 Mar 2008
By Mr. RB FORTUNE-WOOD "Rowan" (UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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