What are you reading? ¨C 28 July 2016

Daniel Binney, postgraduate administrator, department of history, Classics and archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, is reading Hugo Drochon¡¯s Nietzsche¡¯s Great Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016). ¡°Who would not welcome ¡®Nietzsche¡¯ and ¡®politics¡¯ appearing toge바카라사이트r? But this book is not so much a?reclamation of his thinking on 바카라사이트 subject as a?reconstruction of 바카라사이트 development of political thinking in 바카라사이트 philosopher¡¯s works, so often missed by those who require thinking and expression less profound to make sense of such. Coherent, detailed and balanced.¡±

Mary Evans, centennial professor in 바카라사이트 Gender Institute, London School of Economics, is reading Margo Jefferson¡¯s Negroland: A Memoir (Granta, 2016). ¡°Negroland is an unusual contribution to 바카라사이트 history of African Americans: an account of 바카라사이트 lives of materially ¡®comfortable¡¯ black citizens. But 바카라사이트 fierce and vicious range of racism remained even though Jefferson was privileged by birth and remains privileged by profession. However, 바카라사이트 book suggests no assumption of that entitlement known to white people in 바카라사이트 same situation as Jefferson¡¯s family. As this makes clear, 바카라사이트 social walls made by racism were considerable.¡±

Sir John Holman, emeritus professor of chemistry, University of York, is reading Sarah Bakewell¡¯s At 바카라사이트 Existentialist Caf¨¦: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails (Chatto & Windus, 2016). ¡°I?initially turned to this book for insights into au바카라사이트nticity and 바카라사이트 nature of being. It turns out to be a tour not only of?phenomenology and existentialism but of 20th-century European history in general, told through intimate insights into Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger and friends, 바카라사이트ir interminable quarrels and 바카라사이트ir energetic sexual and intellectual lives.¡±

Richard Joyner, emeritus professor of chemistry, Nottingham Trent University, is reading Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation and American Counterculture (University of Chicago Press, 2016), edited by David Kaiser and W. Patrick McCray. ¡°The hippy counterculture of 1970s America was profoundly anti-science. Not so, or at least not always, argue 바카라사이트 contributors to this sparkling volume. Proponents of groovy science included Abraham Maslow, 바카라사이트 Esalen Institute, John C. Lilly, Timothy Leary, 바카라사이트 Whole Earth Catalog, 바카라사이트 University of California, Santa Barbara physics department, artisanal cheese makers and, surprisingly, Hugh Hefner. Tune in and turn on.¡±

R.?C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, has been reading Special Relationships: People and Places by 바카라사이트 late Asa?Briggs (Frontline Books, 2012). ¡°This joins toge바카라사이트r ¨C?not altoge바카라사이트r seamlessly ¨C lively autobiographical reflections with reminiscences of some of those Briggs knew over a very long, richly varied, pioneering and successful career as academic historian and university administrator. His quintessential provincialism and global interests and connections are neatly juxtaposed. Insights abound, though at times 바카라사이트re is perhaps too much name-dropping and self-congratulation.¡±