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Writers who deserve each other Blair Worden on the fascination of the scholar and journalist Noel Malcolm with the great philosopher Thomas Hobbes
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Aspects of Hobbes
by Noel Malcolm
Clarendon Press, pounds 40, 644 pp
pounds 40 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
THE WRITER Noel Malcolm has two guises. They are hardly Jekyll and
Hyde, for an intellectual character and purpose unites them, but
their contrast of manner makes for a most unusual combination.
The reading public knows him mainly as a journalist. He has been
Foreign Editor of The Spectator; he has widely known views on the
Balkan conflict; and he is a book-reviewer of bewildering
versatility. Like all the best reflective journalism his articles are
tips of icebergs, their authority ...
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Books: Metaphysics and all that A new life of Thomas Hobbes is bright and breezy, but Noel Malcolm will not be abandoning his own book
; Hobbes: A Biography by A. P. Martinich Cambridge, pounds 22.95...have been carrying out research for a biography of Thomas Hobbes. When I started work on this project, the need for such...of all the great philosophers this country has produced, Hobbes was by a wide margin the least well served by ...
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Signs of the master spirit : Richard Ollard admires the forthright erudition that fills the letters of Thomas Hobbes : The Correspondence of Thomas Ho bbes Ed Noel Malcolm Clarendon Press pounds 20
; ...Milton, turning to epic poetry in what was then old age? Hobbes is surely the supreme example. His masterpiece, in a...Captain Mark Phillips of the 17th century should read Hobbes's letters to him. In 1633 he bought him a copy of Galileo...The freedom of their relationship is summarised in Hobbes's own ...
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Hobbes on trade, consumption and international order.(Letter to the editor)
; Hobbes's views about the international...are widely misunderstood. As Noel Malcolm has shown, (1) he is far from...is true that, according to Hobbes, nations have eternally been...also true that, according to Hobbes, many moral obligations are...for the misunderstanding of Hobbes's ...
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Books: An outbreak of nonsense Noel Malcolm has rediscovered an extraordinary literary fashion, says Hugh Trevor Roper
; The Origins of English Nonsense by Noel Malcolm HarperCollins, pounds 18, 329 pp WHAT A versatile scholar Noel Malcolm is! He is a historian of philosophy and ideas, the editor of Hobbes, the biographer of a 17th-century Croatian archbishop and...
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Books: Truths the Serbs weren't told KOSOVO: A Short History by Noel Malcolm, Macmillan pounds 20
; ...moment of history in the past 600 years. The Albanians emphasise that they have been in the majority for hundreds of years. Noel Malcolm, author of a respected history of Bosnia, has now tackled the formidable task of disentangling the conflicting myths that...
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BOOK REVIEW / Bosnian guilt: ancient hatreds or wicked leaders?: 'Bosnia: A Short History' - Noel Malcolm: Macmillan, 17.50 pounds
; ...discerning scholarship; a triumph of solid research and good judgement. Against what some would consider almost impossible odds, Noel Malcolm has succeeded in making accessible to the general reader the formidably complicated story of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In doing...
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Milosevic was doomed by press freedom Noel Malcolm says a change of mood in Belgrade sent him to The Hague . . .
; ...now pushing at doors which, once opened, can never be closed. One day, ordinary Serbs will be made free - free of their country's recent past, when they have learned to face the truth about it. Noel Malcolm is the author of Kosovo: a short hi
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What's the big idea? idea Noel Malcolm assesses a compendium of imposing size and ambition
; ...Dynasty China; by page 500 we are cantering through Machiavelli, Hobbes and Locke), it begins to conform more recognisably to the standard...know most about, for example, I find Watson giving Bodin and Hobbes the wrong dates; claiming that there was no concept of an atmosphere...
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Moves to tears Which book, poem or play has made you cry more than any other? Continuing our series, the historian and critic Noel Malcolm chooses Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener
; TWO THINGS move me deeply, grief and unconditional love - grief itself being an expression of love at a time when conditions can no longer apply. I find Rudyard Kipling's short story The Gardener peculiarly moving, not only because of its uncanny portrayal of the numbness of its bereaved central
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Revised editions Which authors, or books, do not enjoy the standing they deserve? Continuing our series on underrated reputations, the critic and historian Noel Malcolm nominates George Borrow
; WHO, NOWADAYS , reads George Borrow, the gypsy-loving, Bible- distributing Victorian polyglot, pugilist and pedestrian? Many people used to; search the dustiest top shelves in a second-hand bookshop, and you will find cheap turn- of-the-century "popular editions" of his works galore. Sadly, he has
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