Neither Trumpets Nor Violins

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.

Contents

1 - Theodore Dalrymple on FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE    9

2 - Samuel Hux on LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN and 

                      TRUMBULL STICKNEY                27             

3 - Kenneth Francis on ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER        47

4 - Theodore Dalrymple on LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN   54

5 - Samuel Hux on JEAN-PAUL SARTRE                  70

6 - Kenneth Francis on BERTRAND RUSSELL              87

7 - Theodore Dalrymple on JOHN STUART MILL           94

8 - Samuel Hux on JONATHAN EDWARDS                111

9 - Kenneth Francis on LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN         122

10 - Theodore Dalrymple on NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI 130

11 - Samuel Hux on PLATO                                  145

12 - Kenneth Francis on FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE      162