![]() ![]() It has been translated into Czech and was launched in Prague, during the Forum 2000 conference in September of 2015. It was also nominated for the IMPAC awards. Notes from Underground, my novel chosen by Ray Tallis as book of the year 2014 in the TLS, received the bronze award in the Suspense/Thriller category in the 2015 IPPY awards. It has even been translated into French, and will be appearing in March. ![]() All in all a shocking performance, but comparatively mildly reviewed and, by my modest standards, a bestseller. It includes new chapters covering the Parisian nonsense machine – Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou – and some timely thoughts about the historians and social thinkers who led British intellectuals up the garden path during the last decades, including Eric Hobsbawm and Ralph Miliband. I also published a response to Brexit, Where We Are (Bloomsbury).įools Frauds and Firebrands is an update of Thinkers of the New Left published, to widespread outrage, in 1986. In 2017 I published On Human Nature (Princeton University Press), which was again widely reviewed, and contains a distillation of my philosophy. In 2016 I again published two books, Confessions of A Heretic (a collection of essays) and The Ring of Truth , about Wagner’s Ring cycle, which was widely and favourably reviewed. ‘It's a gripping, disturbing narrative dealing with abduction and abuse but also love, escape and a type of redemption’. One I particularly like is from Douglas Murray at The Spectator. The Disappeared, published by Bloomsbury, has received wonderful reviews and you can read them in the reviews section. In 2015 I published two books, The Disappeared and later in the autumn, Fools Frauds and Firebrands. My CV provides detailed information concerning my career. Welcome to my website, which is a guide to my professional life as a writer and philosopher.
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