A pair of rich, illuminating studies epitomise a new wave of thinking about the Freud wars and the history of analysis If Freud, as Auden wrote in his 1939 elegy, is “a whole climate of opinion / ...

Even for a television talk show, it was an extraordinary claim. During his January 1, 2000, end-of-the-millennium broadcast, "McLaughlin Group" host John McLaughlin declared that his award for "the ...

‘I believe the Reformation to have been the greatest incident in English history; the root and source of the expansive force which has spread the Anglo-Saxon race over the globe, and imprinted the ...

Insights into Machiavelli’s Personal and Intellectual Development. This book represents a valuable contribution to understanding Machiavelli, by linking his ideas with the life and context in which ...

The publisher seems not to have noticed, but Robert Irwin’s Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton University Press) happens to appear on the 60th anniversary of the first complete English ...

John A. Hall concludes his account of Ernest Gellner by observing that his outlook on the world was austere. “But therein lies its attraction,” he goes on. “Not much real comfort for our woes is on ...

JELLY’S LATEST JAM: Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz -- or so he often claimed, with much flair. As a piano player in New Orleans during the first decade of the 20th century, he was certainly present ...

This biography should revive interest in one of the great (and misunderstood) theorists of international relations. Frei traces Morgenthau's life from his birth into a German-Jewish family to his ...

The Making of Mujib (Bangla Academy Dhaka, 2022) by Dr Rashid Askari is an intellectual biography of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman aimed mainly at historiographers and socio-political scientists.

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Keir Hardie founded, served as MP and led both the Independent Labour Party in 1893 and the… The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (1925) M. Beer Part of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...