Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

  1. Fool's avatar
  2. Santa Monica's avatar
  3. Charles Bakker's avatar
  4. Matty Silverstein's avatar
  5. Jason's avatar
  6. Nathan Meyvis's avatar
  7. Stefan Sciaraffa's avatar

    The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…

Annals of Scathing Book Reviews, Part 78

From a review of André Burguière's Annales School:  An Intellectual History (translated by Jane Marie Todd) by Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans: 

Self-important, pompous, pretentious, solipsistic, often obscure, sometimes barely coherent, his book seems to address itself only to those in the know. The translation by Jane Marie Todd renders all these faults with exemplary accuracy.

But did he like the book? 

 

(Thanks to Jerry Dworkin for the pointer and for realizing this was a review after my own heart.  Professor Evans should have a blog!)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Designed with WordPress