Geoffrey Tandy Geoffrey Tandy Geoffrey A. Tandy (1900–1969) was a British marine biologist and broadcaster. Tandy graduated from Oxford University in 1921, and pursued graduate studies at Birkbeck College, in the University of London. He was employed at the Natural History Museum in London from 1926 to 1948, specialising in the biology of algae, after which he worked for the British Foreign Office until 1954. A friend of T. S. Eliot, Tandy wrote a "Broadcasting Chronicle" for "The Criterion", and was the first to broadcast "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" in 1937. During the Second World War he worked at Bletchley
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy the wise: one doesn't have to follow every proposition, make every connection — the intuitive or affective reading may be more practical anyway." Hurley suggested that the book should be read like poetry. The philosopher Pierre-François Moreau wrote that Deleuze sees in Spinozism a philosophy of power. The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio suggested that Deleuze provided a reading of Spinoza's thinking compatible with the view that the mind arises from the body. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy Spinoza: Practical Philosophy () (1970; second edition 1981) is a book by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, in which the author examines Baruch Spinoza's philosophy, discussing "Ethics"