Simone Gubler

Jan 8, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Charles Foster |Noga Arikha |Robert Adès |Simone Gubler

Why are we good? Why are we bad? What do those questions mean? Do they mean anything at all? Even if meaningless, these questions matter. They deserve a big book with a broad reach, written by an adroit, confident author, happy in many disciplines. They have it in The Invention of Good and Evil, a brilliant, acute, infuriating, uneven survey of the last five million years of history, courtesy of the German philosopher Hanno Sauer, sparklingly translated by Jo Heinrich.   Sauer’s structure is neat.

Dec 18, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Simone Gubler |Charles Foster |Noga Arikha |Robert Adès

The initial work to categorize all of the dogs that live among us was suffused with the spirit of the Scientific Revolution. John Caius, a Cambridge physician, published one of the first attempts at canine taxonomy in 1570. There are five classes of dog, he tells us. He groups them not primarily in terms of physical characteristics, but rather by the useful stations that they hold in human lives.

Oct 24, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Simone Gubler

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