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Book SynopsisA work in three parts, Things Written starts with aphorisms in "How Not to Be a Ruminant", shifts to essays in "Weights and Counterweights", and concludes with poetry in "By the Metre". Some arguments appear in more than one section, and include nationalism, class, free will, religion, literature and the arts, but the theme of human relationships runs through the entire book, and is most closely examined with reference to the ideas of Martin Buber in a long essay entitled "Cats and Dogs, and Other Things We Cannot Understand". The back cover carries the following: "WARNING: This is a non-genre product and end-users may encounter forms and ideas to which they are allergic. Vagabond Voices Publishing Ltd, its board of directors, shareholders, parent company and/or subsidiaries advise end-users that they read this book entirely at their own risk."
Trade Review" - there is - in Cameron's work, a lingering spirituality, a faith that the something soulful and significant is present in the everyday, in the ordinary 'heroism of mortals' he writes of. On occasion this takes the form of scepticism about science's claim to be able to quantify and explain all experience. Like the philosopher John Gray, he is dubious about 'progress', political, economic, and scientific. - if Scottish literature has a true outsider, it is not Irvine Welsh: it's Allan Cameron." - Scottish Review of Books
Table of ContentsHow Not to Be a Ruminant (aphorisms) Weights and Counterweights (essays) Cats and Dogs, and Other Things We Cannot Understand On Tolstoy's Resurrection On Aphorisms Did My Father Have Free Will? Nations and Nationalism On Friendship On Writing about Ourselves On the Soul On Publishing On Nation, Polity and Cosmopolity On Class, Work and Politics On Essays A Sceptic's Defence of Religion What Was Wrong with the Left? Conclusion By the Metre (poetry)
