Passion and Cunning
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Passion and Cunning

and Other Essays

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eBook - ePub

Passion and Cunning

and Other Essays

About this book

Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political convictions of W. B. Yeats is the title-piece for this superb 1988 collection of pieces on politics, religion, nationalism and terrorism.

'O'Brien is a man of strong views, and he writes with verve and wit. Agree with him or not, one reads him with enjoyment.' Foreign Affairs

'[ Passion and Cunning] displays once again [O'Brien's] wonderful range of talents: a beautiful command of the language, gentle wit and coruscating satire, shrewd political judgment and a raking critical power. O'Brien is, moreover, a critic against all-comers, his spiky guns pointing in all directions: woe betide anyone incautious enough to presume that O'Brien is on their 'side'. . . O'Brien believes in all manner of good causes, but his own independence is finally what he cares about most.' R. W. Johnson, London Review of Books

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Conor Cruise O’Brien: An Appreciation
  7. Introduction
  8. Passion and Cunning: An Essay on the Politics of W. B. Yeats
  9. Virtue and Terror: Rousseau and Robespierre
  10. The Liberal Pole: Pope John Paul II
  11. God and Man in Nicaragua
  12. What Can Become of South Africa?
  13. South Africa and the Academic Boycott
  14. ‘The Irish Mind’: A Bad Case of Cultural Nationalism
  15. Bobby Sands: Mutations of Nationalism
  16. Ireland: The Shirt of Nessus
  17. Thinking About Terrorism: I
  18. Thinking About Terrorism: II
  19. Press Freedom and the Need to Please
  20. A Neo-Conservative Ideologue: Norman Podhoretz
  21. Three Zionists: Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Katznelson
  22. The Fall of Africa
  23. States of the Union
  24. Index
  25. Copyright