Witcraft

''Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page'' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times

''We English men have wits,'' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and, ''we have also framed unto ourselves a language.''

Witcraft is a fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English. It presents a new form of philosophical storytelling an...