The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades Book

	Introduction : what's in a name?
Pt. I	Speculation
	The coming of wit	5
	Runaway mankind : on Gregory Bateson	10
	Nietzsche and creation	13
	Not what the doctor ordered	17
	The heart of a venomous squabble : on Jung, Freud, and Spielrein	20
	Trust life to work with you	23
	The value of the clown : on R. D. Laing	25
	Do humans desire happiness?	27
	'Two cultures' are not culture	32
Pt. II	Literature and reality
	From Journey into the dark, I	39
	What are novels for?	47
	William Faulkner's universe	52
	Seeing it whole : on Patrick White	56
	What life is like : on Italo Calvino	59
	The philosopher fails - the artist succeeds : on Iris Murdoch	62
	Bits of gold : on J. P. Donleavy	65
	Lament for lost childhood : on Vladimir Nabokov	67
	Desire for delinquency : on Philip Roth	70
	No answer from the sky : on Joseph Conrad	73
	Dissidence : on Fyodor Dostoevsky	77
	'The new humanism is coming, in spite of all the barbarism' : on Thomas Mann	80
	Against the tyranny of genes : on Arthur Koestler	83
	Jerusalem : a novel of hope that cannot find a publisher	85
	Gilbert Sorrentino and Mulligan stew	89
Pt. III	Pathology and sanity
	From Journey into the dark, II	95
	The schizoid state	99
	The burden of vocation	101
	Self-deceit and lack of courage : on Heinrich Himmler	104
	Becoming free of the burden	107
	Are not humans responsible for themselves? : on Bruno Bettelheim	110
	Some do take responsibility for themselves	112
	Jonestown enigmas	114
	Evil is done by ordinary people going about their ordinary tasks	117
	Cold feet : on Leon Trotsky	120
	Sparks that glowed : on Andrei Sakharov	124
	Cogs in wheels	128
	What makes life worth living	131
Pt. IV	Philosophy and practice
	From Journey into the dark, III	135
	A question of probabilities : on John Maynard Keynes	139
	The enemy of paradox : on Bertrand Russell	142
	The moral voluptuousness of hell : on Michael Foucault	145
	Philosophy back in the mainstream?	148
Pt. V	Religion
	The church and art	153
	Through a glass darkly	156
	A social contract?	159
	For heaven's sake - repent!	161
	The Christian and the bomb	165
	Mohammed and monotheism	167
	The Old Testament and Paradise lost	169
	The uses of adversity	173
	Prayer	175
	Freedom made available by God	177
	Philip Pullman's theology	181
Pt. VI	Science, self, God
	From Journey into the dark, IV	189
	What price political idealism?	197
	From Journey into the dark, V	203
	Stammering	211
	From Journey into the dark, VI	215