Tag Archives: Henry Hopwood-Phillips

Fantasy Racism

Posted on January 23, 2015 by leslie

Fantasy Racism  Henry Hopwood-Phillips peruses a provocative exegesis Adrian Hart, That’s Racist! How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All, Imprint Academic, 2014, pb, 136 pp, £9.95 Veteran anti-racist campaigner, teacher and film-maker Adrian Hart has watched as … Continue reading →

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The Savonarola of Suburbia

Posted on October 9, 2014 by leslie

The Savonarola of Suburbia Henry Hopwood-Phillips debunks new leftism Owen Jones, The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, Allen Lane, London, 2014, pp 368, £16.99 If you’ve heard of him its possible that is you’ve been blocked by … Continue reading →

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The Last Serious Poet?

Posted on September 20, 2014 by leslie

The Last Serious Poet? Incorrigible obfuscator or doyen – Henry Hopwood-Phillips assesses a poet on whom the jury is still out Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, hb, £35 Examples of writer’s block don’t come … Continue reading →

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Bernard’s razor HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Derek Turner

Bernard’s razor Essays and Reviews 1959-2002 Bernard Williams, University Press Group, 2014, £24.95 HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS finds a digest of decades-old asides and insights surprisingly to his taste A book of over 400 pages of radios talks, public lecture notes, journalism … Continue reading →

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Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Derek Turner

Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS is impressed by an audacious re-imagining of medieval thought Inventing the Individual – The Origins of Western Liberalism Larry Siedentop, London: Allen Lane, 2014, 448 pps Larry Siedentop’s introduction gets straight to the point. We have … Continue reading →

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The last pagan

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Derek Turner

The last pagan Julian: An Intellectual Biography Polymnia Athanassiadi, Routledge, 2014, 272pps, £80 HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS wishes that an important biography of “Julian the Apostate” was better-written   I had imagined in my mind the sort of procession it would be… … Continue reading →

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A capital critique – a short interview with Daniel Pinto

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Derek Turner

A capital critique – a short interview with Daniel Pinto HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS interviews the wealth manager and economic thinker DANIEL PINTO Your advocacy of family business is unfashionable; as you say in Capital Wars, it’s conventionally perceived as merely a … Continue reading →

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From dinosaurs to Doric

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Derek Turner

From dinosaurs to Doric The Making of the Middle Sea – A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World Cyprian Broodbank, London: Thames and Hudson, 2013, £34.95 [Greeks] live in a small part … Continue reading →

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On “Orientalism”

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Derek Turner

On “Orientalism” HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS revisits Edward Said’s famous post-colonial polemic and finds it seriously wanting In 1963 Dr Abdel-Malik caused shock waves in the field of Oriental Studies when he claimed that it was ‘Europocentric’, paying insufficient attention to the … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Zizek – the Left’s visionary of violence

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Derek Turner

Slavoj Žižek – visionary of violence HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS examines one of today’s most lionized Leftists Born in 1949 to an economist and an accountant in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek is a cultural critic renowned for his innovative interpretations of the … Continue reading →

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