John J. Callanan - Man-Devil The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe À paraître en octobre aux Princeton UP

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JOB - Professorship of Politics, University of Cambridge This is a senior position, open to various subfields (including political theory) jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47365/

The reason why there is so much nonsense talked about Ireland and South Africa is because they are so damn close, and either one can beat the other on a good day.

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Bernard Mandeville is on the cover of the Literary Review, where he belongs. My book is is out next month, but is already reviewed here: literaryreview.co.uk/current-issue/…

I am proud that Engelsberg Ideas has a stable of such wonderful writers. Here are their books of the year: engelsbergideas.com/reviews/books-…

Wonderful to see John Callanan’s “engrossing and very readable” Man-Devil (out January 14) reviewed by Bryan Appleyard CBE in The Spectator. Read more: hubs.ly/Q031fFL90

Publication Day!! #Mandeville

‘Polanyi’s book was an exceptionally bold effort to make sense of contemporary developments on an international scale by telling a quasi-historical story.’ Stefan Collini on ‘The Great Transformation’, Karl Polanyi’s examination of the ‘market society’: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

Thanks Krista!

"The Man-Devil title was not entirely unfair — Mandeville was a provocateur, an intellectual prankster. He wanted to be known, he wanted to sell books and he succeeded by popularizing one simple idea that today seems unremarkable." trib.al/cxhXgZD

“Man-Devil is a fascinating and welcome corrective, not least because Bernard Mandeville was among the first to argue that we don’t really know ourselves“ — Patrick West reviews Man-Devil, by John Callanan thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-202…

Last year tylercowen mentioned reading John Callanan ‘s Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe, which he described as “a good treatment of an underrated and still under-read Dutch thinker.”

"We need not endorse [Bernard] Mandeville’s entire philosophy to recognize that the questions he posed are as pertinent as ever." Check out Max Skjönsberg's (Max Skjönsberg) latest book review on "Man-Devil," which outlines the modern relevancy of Mandeville at 🔗

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John Callanan For so long I've been waiting for your book. I finally feel I get that devil. It was a blast talking about it with you too. philosophypodcasts.org/man-devil