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A few reviews crossed our desk over the weekend – here's a taste.
Peter Swirski's Ars Americana, Ars Politica – The Financial Times Review
"As Peter Swirski makes clear in his first page, Ars Americana, Ars Politica is concerned with writers who are not afraid to be partisan, who combine entertainment with commitment, who produce “the kind of art that should come equipped with shock absorbers”. The result is a provocative and energetic book that reaches out beyond academia in an attempt to define the nature of American political literature.
Swirski’s focus is US literature and film of the past 50 years. Surprisingly perhaps, this does not render the book inaccessible to the non-American reader. Many of Swirski’s choices, such as filmmaker Michael Moore and writer PJ O’Rourke, are well-known on both sides of the Atlantic; others might be less familiar, but this doesn’t matter. The book is an enjoyable rummage through half a century of US culture in an attempt to give savage political satire as honourable a place as any other art form."
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Giving Heretics Their Say – The Chronicle of Higher Education Review of Mary Midgley's The Solitary Self
"That Midgley remains vigorous in her denunciation of neo-Darwinism is itself remarkable, as she is now 91 years old. Often called the greatest living British moral philosopher, during World War II she was a contemporary and friend at the University of Oxford of three other women who would go on to become leading English philosophers—Iris Murdoch (1919-99), Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001), and Philippa Foot (1920-2010). Midgley did not publish the first of her now-many books until the age of 59—she has always said that she needed time to think, first.
Her book includes an element of credo—in her case, her beliefs about how biology really interacts with morality—and that typifies the Heretics series, says Mark Vernon. He believes, he says, that readers of books by contrarian thinkers like to know something of how their authors arrived at their thoughts."
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