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“It is a splendid book. I have just finished reading it through for a second time with great pleasure and profit … There is no simple and straightforward way of summarizing your rich and complex argument. The richness and the complexity are inevitable, given that your subject matter is language.” – Alasdair MacIntyre.
“The murderous Belgian Congo is only one of Walter Scott’s ‘wide and deep rivers’ in McCarey’s rich, mind-expanding book … Steal this book! Better still, buy and scribble. Alps of logic and metaphysics lie there to be scaled – the philosophies of Alasdair MacIntyre, George Davie and John Anderson aren’t for the uninstructed – but also great subversions (a ‘People of the Opium’ feature threatening Holyrood for a start). Re-reading is compulsory.” – Christopher Harvie, The Scottish Review
“Does this book achieve all this? Well, certainly enough to keep me hooked after two careful readings…” – Alexander Hutchison, PN Review
“Contrary, generous, intermittently barmy, always readable.” – John Clegg, London Review Bookshop poetry picks of the year 2014
