Status Updates From History Man: The Life of R....

So far this is utter dreck. Why write a biography of Britain's greatest idealist, and then insist that he wasn't influenced by Hegel, *while discussing a book that obviously follows Hegel's categories precisely*? I know why, of course. Inglis doesn't understand Hegel.

The Preface includes the sentences: "A recent piece in the LRB started out with some malicious animadversions on the whole convention of prefatory acknowledgements... it is to be feared that so sneering a note is not untypical of the present journal's rival conviction that anything of literary note can only take place in NW6." Not a promising start to a bio of a beautiful writer.

The Preface includes the sentences: "A recent piece in the LRB started out with some malicious animadversions on the whole convention of prefatory acknowledgements... it is to be feared that so sneering a note is not untypical of the present journal's rival conviction that anything of literary note can only take place in NW6." Not a promising start to a bio of a beautiful writer.