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Article: Against the Idols of the Age.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
- Author:
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STOVE, David. Against the Idols of the Age. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999. xxxv + 347 pp. Cloth, $39.95--In my view there were two great (and late) under-appreciated geniuses of twentieth century philosophy. The first was D. C. Williams. The second was a man who greatly admired Williams, David Stove. Both have paid for having conservative views and presenting them polemically, but this is a great pity, for not only are their political views worth listening to, their nonpolitical work is brilliant, more so, I suspect, than even some of their aficionados realize. Now Stove's following is on the up, with the release of this compilation from a new admirer, Roger ...