Anyone Can Be Tolerant Of Those Who

The British Are Supposed To Be Particularly Averse To Intellectuals, A Prejudice Closely Bound Up With Their Dislike Of Foreigners. Indeed, One Important Source Of This Anglo-saxon Distaste For Highbrows And Eggheads Was The French Revolution, Which Was Seen As An Attempt To Reconstruct Society On The Basis Of Abstract Rational Principles.

All Consciousness Is Consciousness Of Something: In Thinking I Am Aware That My Thought Is 'pointing Towards' Some Object.

Socialism Is The Completion Of Democracy, Not The Negation Of It.

The German Philosopher Walter Benjamin Had The Curious Notion That We Could Change The Past. For Most Of Us, The Past Is Fixed While The Future Is Open.

Irish Fiction Is Full Of Secrets, Guilty Pasts, Divided Identities. It Is No Wonder That There Is Such A Rich Tradition Of Gothic Writing In A Nation So Haunted By History.