Neither Trumpets Nor Violins

by Theodore Dalrymple, Samuel Hux, Kenneth Francis

Overview

New English Review Press once again takes on the great ideas of our time in this sequel to The Terror of Existence by Theodore Dalrymple and Kenneth Francis. This volume adds another interesting mind to the mix: the philosopher Samuel Hux. Together these thinkers take on some of the most prominent philosophers influencing our age, pointing out strengths and weaknesses in their works, worldviews. and characters. Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Machiavelli, Plato, Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill and Bertrand Russell are covered as are the less well-known Trumbull Stickney and Jonathan Edwards.

If you liked The Terror of Existence, you'll love Neither Trumpets Nor Violins. It's food for the mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943003570
Publisher:	World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press
Publication date:	04/11/2022
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Theodore Dalrymple is New English Review Senior Editor. He is also known as Dr. Anthony Daniels, a recently retired doctor and psychiatrist who worked in a slum hospital and prison in Birmingham, England. A prolific author of numerous essays and opinion pieces carried in the Wall Street Journal, Cato Institute, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph, New Criterion, City Journal, and National Review as well as over two dozen books.

Samuel Hux is a contributing editor at New English Review and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at York College CUNY. He has functioned as a literary critic, philosopher, and intellectual historian, when not writing essays. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Modern Age, New Criterion, New Oxford Review, The New Republic, Saturday Review, and many others.

Kenneth Francis is a contributing editor and resident theologian at New English Review and part-time university professor of journalism. He is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth and co-author of The Terror of Existence (with Theodore Dalrymple).