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25Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary TheorySpringer. 2016.This work subjects the fundamental ideas of Derrida, Lacan, Barthes and their followers to an examination and demonstrates the baselessness of post-Saussurean claims about the relations between language, reality and self.
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37A Cure for TheorrheaCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 3 (1): 7-39. 1989.FROM PRAGUE TO PARIS: A CRITIQUE OF STRUCTURALIST AND POST?STRUCTURALIST THOUGHT by J. G. Merquior New York: Methuen, 1986. 286 pp., $12.95 (paper).
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A critique of neuromythologyIn Raymond Tallis & Howard Robinson (eds.), The Pursuit of mind, Carcanet. pp. 86--109. 1992.
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8The explicit animal: a defence of human consciousnessMacmillan Academic and Professional. 1991.There has been an extraordinary resurgence of interest in the enigma of human consciousness among neuroscientists, psychologists, and professional philosophers. Much work is aimed at accommodating consciousness within the currently dominant physicalist world picture. This book is a comprehensive and sometimes impassioned attack to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes; to "computerize" it by identifying mind…Read more
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18Newton's sleep: the two cultures and the two kingdomsSt. Martin's Press. 1995.The most distinctive activities of humankind and the source of its greatest achievements are the scientific investigation of the world and the creation of art. Newton's Sleep examines their complementary roles in contemporary life and defends both against those who assert that science is spiritually empty and inherently dangerous and that art is trivialised by a lack of social mission.
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4Enemies of hope: a critique of contemporary pessimismSt. Martin's Press. 1997.Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond Tallis's latest debunking of Kulturkritik delves into a host of ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought, raising questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies of Hope, those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are almost routine amongst humanist intellectuals may be inclined to think twice. By clearing away the 'hysterical humanism' of the present century Enemies of Hope frees us to start think…Read more
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5Enemies of hope: a critique of contemporary pessimismSt. Martin's Press. 1997.Perceptive, passionate, and often controversial, Raymond Tallis's latest debunking of Kulturkritik delves into a host of ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought, raising questions we cannot afford to ignore. After reading Enemies of Hope , those minded to misrepresent mankind in ways that are almost routine among humanist intellectuals may be inclined to think twice. By clearing away the "hysterical humanism" of the present century this book frees us to start thinking co…Read more
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1Increasing Longevity: Medical, Social and Political ImplicationsRoyal College of Physicians. 1998.
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Evidence-based and Evidence-free Generalisations: a Tale of Two CulturesIn David Fuller & Patricia Waugh (eds.), The Arts and Sciences of Criticism, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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3On the edge of certainty: philosophical explorationsSt. Martin's Press. 1999.In earlier work, Raymond Tallis defends the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological, and computational terms. This book continues to investigate these implications of human nature advanced in his earlier works for our understanding of the nature of truth, of language, of the mind, and of the self.
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2Theorrhoea and afterSt. Martin's Press. 1999.Theorrhoea and After completes the work of the author's previous critiques which demolished post-Saussurean thought and observes the tactics used by theorists to keep theory alive. The book examines literature and the other arts from a viewpoint which goes beyond the ideas of those bewitched by contemporary postmodernist thought. Witty and profound, it aims to entertain as well as illuminate.
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18The Raymond Tallis readerPalgrave. 2000.The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this passionate, perceptive, and often controversial thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking commentary. From nihilism to Theorrhoea, from literary theory to the role of the unconscious, The Raymond Tallis Reader guides us through the panoptic sweep of Tallis's critical insights and reveals a way of thinking for the 21st century.
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6A conversation with Martin HeideggerPalgrave. 2002.Martin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the most difficult thinkers of the last century. Raymond Tallis, who has been arguing with Heidegger for over thirty years, illuminates his fundamental ideas through an imaginary conversation, which is both relaxed and rigorous, witty and profound.
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5The knowing animal: a philosophical inquiry into knowledge and truthEdinburgh University Press. 2005.Completes a trilogy that aims to revolutionise our understanding of what it is to be a human being without recourse to theology and supernatural explanations on the one hand or scientism and naturalistic explanations on the other.
