Volume 23, Number 11 · June 24, 1976
A Celestial Telephone Exchange
By J.M. Cameron
Evil and World Order
by William Irwin Thompson, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen
Harper & Row, 116 pp., $7.95
With Evil and World Order Mr. Thompson develops the line of thought begun in At the Edge of History (1971)[1] and continued in Passages about Earth (1974).[2] Perhaps 'line of thought' is not quite the most suitable expression, for it is hard to extract from his work any extended argument. This isn't in itself a condemnation, for the work of many powerful contemporary thinkers is dense and complex, and impossible to state crisply. Neither Hannah Arendt nor Wittgenstein is clear in the way Professor Ayer (for example) or Bertrand Russell is clear, but we are free to think such dense complexity a sign of philosophical depth.
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