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...writings, and the way in which they highlight aspects of fundamental historical materialism, formal equality and the relationship between the state and the individual. Derek Matravers and Gerry Cohen on The German Ideology The German Ideology, Marx and Engels’ 1845 book, is dissected and discussed. The discussion highlights the importance of the book in terms of Marx...

...writing my second book at the moment, which pushes forward my interest in wartime endurance and resilience. This one is focused on smoking in wartime British society and culture during the period c. 1850 to c. 1950. I’m looking at smoking from as many angles as I can within this context, including the economics of tobacco supply, the everyday experience of smoking on...

...writing literature (which is not true of every language). This pushed them in novel and interesting directions, allowing them to express new ideas with freshly minted words or with existing words endowed with new meanings. We catch sight of this process in the development of Latin as a philosophical language. The responsibility for this lies primarily with Cicero, who has...