Is reason the slave of the passions?
In debate with Simon Jenkins about David Hume’s bold challenge to the primacy of pure logical thinking, in Prospect.
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Morality of the tribe
Video of a debate I chaired at the How the Light Gets In festival with Natalie Cargill, David Miller and Peter Tatchell.
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Thinking Bigger
Interview for Baillie Gifford Author Insights with Colin Renton
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A timely biography of Kierkegaard
Just as Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings were meant to enable the reader to understand different modes of existence from the inside, Carlisle’s biography takes us inside Kierkegaard’s troubled, complicated life, portraying a man who both compels and repels in turn.
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The hope in France’s shame
You cannot separate who you are from the culture in which you developed. Society is not a mere collection of atomised individuals. We are more than simply all cut from the same cultural cloth – we’re all part of the same fabric.
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