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Back in December 1989 Burgess wrote an article predicting the shape of the ‘90s. He died a few short years

During medieval times, the church was of course the overwhelming influence, and to be a philosopher was to be a

Let’s take a whistle-stop tour of the ideas and philosophies of the Renaissance (1350-1600). Religious ideas A cleavage appeared between

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Spinoza (1632-1677) was a bit of an eccentric. A Dutch philosopher of Jewish origin, he cultivated a very original take

Whenever I go to London I always call in on a small radical bookstore called Housmans on the lookout for

Michel Foucault (1926-84) was a French thinker, one of the “postmodernists”. Not really a philosopher so much as a cultural

Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto together in 1848. It’s punchy and readable. It starts “A spectre is haunting

In the last few decades many in the West have looked askance at their stressful materialistic lives and turned to

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) popularised his brand of existentialism in various ways – through his philosophical writings and also through his