Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Brother, Can You Spare a Drachma?


I know, I know, it's all Euros these days ...

I learnt a little while back from someone called Stratos Fountoulis that my masterwork, The Threat to Reason, is now available in Greek, from the redoubtable publishing house of Thyrathen. This cheers me up immensely, not least because I didn't have a clue how to pay my rent and now I do ...

Those not blessed with a working knowledge of Greek can always find a paperback copy of the English version on the Amazon website.

On the other hand, if you have a penchant for reading on screen you can download the book for free from the Ready Steady Book website. How's that for deflation? From £14.99 to £0.00 in less than two years ...

Still, it is sweet to know that the notion of a Kantian public is percolating through the common culture. I publish a book in the summer of 2007, calling for the end of private domination of the intellectual culture and the restoration of a disinterested public as the agent and arbiter of substantive enlightenment. By the summer of 2009 the neoliberal model is in ruins, nationalisation of the banks is on the agenda, and the public is back with a vengeance.

David Aaronovitch is quite right in this instance. One doesn't need complicated conspiracies to explain recent history, since I did the whole thing, myself. On my own.

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