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Reviews of Not Saussure and The Explicit Animal: Not Saussure - 'I
greatly enjoyed it...' - Bernard Bergonzi 'The Explicit Animal -
'...his books are genuine contributions to professional debate...'
- Stephen R.L. Clarke, Times Literary Supplement;Newton's Sleep
examines the complementary roles of science and art in human life.
Science has been criticised for being at best useful but
spiritually derelict, and art for attempting to answer the
spiritual needs of humankind while ignoring the material needs of
millions who live in want. Newton's Sleep deals with the charges
that science is spiritually empty and that art fails in its
civilising mission by relating these aspects of human culture to
the physical and metaphysical hungers of an explicit animal who
lives in both the Kingdom of Means and the Kingdom of Ends. 'Tallis
can, and frequently does, write extremely well. He also writes with
considerable passion...Tallis...is perhaps best seen as an
exceptionally interesting and broad-minded heir to Huxley,
preaching the cause of the Church Scientific...' Richard Webster
The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the
work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial
thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented
by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking commentary.
From nihilism to Theorrhoea, from literary theory to the role of
the unconscious, The Raymond Tallis Reader guides us through the
panoptic sweep of Tallis's critical insights and reveals a way of
thinking for the twenty-first century.
'Vast in its intellectual scope, it should induce not so much sleep
as controversy, whether literary or scientific, philosophical or
political. It skims the oceans of academe in a manner accessible to
the educated public, informed and cogently argued, stylistically
dense...' - Sandra Goldbeck-Wood, British Medical Journal `Tallis
can, and frequently does, write extremely well. He also writes with
considerable passion...Raymond Tallis, is perhaps best seen as an
exceptionally interesting and broad-minded heir to Huxley,
preaching the cause of the Church Scientific.' - Richard Webster,
Times Literary Supplement Reviews of Not Saussure and The Explicit
Animal: Not Saussure - 'I greatly enjoyed it...' - Bernard Bergonzi
'The Explicit Animal - '...his books are genuine contributions to
professional debate...' - Stephen R.L. Clarke, Times Literary
Supplement Newton's Sleep examines the complementary roles of
science and art in human life. Science has been criticised for
being at best useful but spiritually derelict, and art for
attempting to answer the spiritual needs of humankind while
ignoring the material needs of millions who live in want. Newton's
Sleep deals with the charges that science is spiritually empty and
that art fails in its civilising mission by relating these aspects
of human culture to the physical and metaphysical hungers of an
explicit animal who lives in both the Kingdom of Means and the
Kingdom of Ends. 'Tallis can, and frequently does, write extremely
well. He also writes with considerable passion...Tallis...is
perhaps best seen as an exceptionally interesting and broad-minded
heir to Huxley, preaching the cause of the Church Scientific...'
Richard Webster
Martin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the most difficult thinkers of the last century. Raymond Tallis, who has been arguing with Heidegger for over thirty years, illuminates his fundamental ideas through an imaginary conversation, which is both relaxed and rigorous, witty and profound.
'There may be other professors of geriatric medicine who have
chosen to write down their views on life, the universe and
everything...Raymond Tallis is unusual in that he is
philosophically well educated and alert: his books are genuine
contributions to professional debate and must be assessed as such.'
- Stephen R.L. Clarke, The Times Literary Supplement. Perceptive,
passionate and often controversial, Raymond Tallis's latest
debunking of Kulturkritik delves into a host of ethical and
philosophical issues central to contemporary thought, raising
questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies of
Hope, those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are almost
routine amongst humanist intellectuals may be inclined to think
twice. By clearing away the 'hysterical humanism' of the present
century Enemies of Hope frees us to start thinking constructively
about the way forward for humanity in the next.
Over the last few years, Raymond Tallis has published widely
acclaimed critiques of influential trends in contemporary thought:
for example, Not Saussure - described as 'one of the most brilliant
and effective of all rebuttals of post-Saussurean theory' - In
Defence of Realism and The Explicit Animal, which demonstrated the
baselessness of contemporary accounts of consciousness. Enemies of
Hope takes the story further, identifying the themes common to
anti-humanist twentieth-century thought and challenging the cult of
pessimism that pervades our age. Tallis teases out the many strands
of the comfortable, self-congratulatory cynicism of modernist and
postmodernist cultural critics, exposing their self-contradictions
and their wilful blindness to the distinctive mystery of human
nature. The 'pathologisers of culture' and 'the marginalisers of
consciousness' are shown to be the enemies of hope - the hope of
progress based upon the rational, conscious endeavours of
humankind. Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond
Tallis's latest debunking of Kulturkritik explores a host of
ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought,
raising questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies
of Hope, those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are
almost routine amongst humanist intellectuals may be inclined to
think twice. By clearing away the hysterical anti-humanism of the
twentieth century Enemies of Hope frees us to start thinking
constructively about the way forward for humanity in the
twenty-first.
Over the last few years, Raymond Tallis has published widely
acclaimed critiques of influential trends in contemporary thought:
for example, Not Saussure - described as 'one of the most brilliant
and effective of all rebuttals of post-Saussurean theory' - In
Defence of Realism and The Explicit Animal, which demonstrated the
baselessness of contemporary accounts of consciousness. Enemies of
Hope takes the story further, identifying the themes common to
anti-humanist twentieth-century thought and challenging the cult of
pessimism that pervades our age. Tallis teases out the many strands
of the comfortable, self-congratulatory cynicism of modernist and
postmodernist cultural critics, exposing their self-contradictions
and their wilful blindness to the distinctive mystery of human
nature. The 'pathologisers of culture' and 'the marginalisers of
consciousness' are shown to be the enemies of hope - the hope of
progress based upon the rational, conscious endeavours of
humankind. Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond
Tallis's latest debunking of Kulturkritik explores a host of
ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought,
raising questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies
of Hope, those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are
almost routine amongst humanist intellectuals may be inclined to
think twice. By clearing away the hysterical anti-humanism of the
twentieth century Enemies of Hope frees us to start thinking
constructively about the way forward for humanity in the
twenty-first.
Martin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the
most difficult thinkers of the last century. His masterpiece Being
and Time has been described as the most profound turning point in
German philosophy since Hegel. Raymond Tallis, who has been arguing
with Heidegger for over thirty years, illuminates his fundamental
ideas through an imaginary conversation, which is both relaxed and
rigorous, witty and profound. The Conversation defines Heidegger's
relevance to the philosophical agenda of the present century by
illuminating his great contribution to our thinking about what it
is to be a human being while identifying the weaknesses in his
thought.
The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the
work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial
thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented
by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking commentary.
From nihilism to Theorrhoea, from literary theory to the role of
the unconscious, The Raymond Tallis Reader guides us through the
panoptic sweep of Tallis's critical insights and reveals a way of
thinking for the twenty-first century.
There has been an extraordinary resurgence of interest in the
enigma of human consciousness among neuroscientists, psychologists,
and professional philosophers. Much work is aimed at accommodating
consciousness within the currently dominant physicalist world
picture. This book is a comprehensive and sometimes impassioned
attack to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in
evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain
processes; to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the
supposed computational activity of the brain; and to empty or
eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia. Raymond Tallis's
critique concludes with a long look at man--"the explicit
animal"--that makes the irreducible mystery of human consciousness
impossible to overlook or deny.
Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond Tallis's
latest debunking of Kulturkritik delves into a host of ethical and
philosophical issues central to contemporary thought, raising
questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies of Hope
, those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are almost
routine amongst humanist intellectuals may be inclined to think
twice. By clearing away the 'hysterical humanism' of the present
century Enemies of Hope frees us to start thinking constructively
about the way forward for humanity in the next.
Reviews of Not Saussure and The Explicit Animal: Not Saussure - 'I
greatly enjoyed it...' - Bernard Bergonzi 'The Explicit Animal -
'...his books are genuine contributions to professional debate...'
- Stephen R.L. Clarke, Times Literary Supplement;Newton's Sleep
examines the complementary roles of science and art in human life.
Science has been criticised for being at best useful but
spiritually derelict, and art for attempting to answer the
spiritual needs of humankind while ignoring the material needs of
millions who live in want. Newton's Sleep deals with the charges
that science is spiritually empty and that art fails in its
civilising mission by relating these aspects of human culture to
the physical and metaphysical hungers of an explicit animal who
lives in both the Kingdom of Means and the Kingdom of Ends. 'Tallis
can, and frequently does, write extremely well. He also writes with
considerable passion...Tallis...is perhaps best seen as an
exceptionally interesting and broad-minded heir to Huxley,
preaching the cause of the Church Scientific...' Richard Webster
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