Edward Skidelsky is a lecturer in philosophy at Exeter University. His research interests include aesthetics and moral and political philosophy. He has written essays on the institutional theory of art, the intellectual roots of neoconservatism, and the language of the virtues. His book
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture is forthcoming from Princeton University Press, 2008. His next project is for a book provisionally entitled
Christianity and the Liberal State.