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ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
1959-2002 |
| By: |
Bernard Williams, Michael Wood (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£24.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691159858 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691159850 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 January, 2014 |
| Pages: |
456 |
| Description: |
Offers a range of subjects, from philosophy and political philosophy to religion, science, the humanities, economics, socialism, feminism, and pornography. This title includes reviews of major books such as John Rawls' Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and Alastair MacIntyre's After Virtue. |
| Synopsis: |
Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews. Williams writes about a broad range of subjects, from philosophy to science, the humanities, economics, feminism, and pornography. Included are reviews of major books such as John Rawls's Theory of Justice, Richard Rorty's Consequences of Pragmatism, and Martha Nussbaum's Therapy of Desire. But many of these essays extend beyond philosophy, providing an intellectual tour through the past half century, from C. S. Lewis to Noam Chomsky. No matter the subject, readers see a first-class mind grappling with landmark books in "real time," before critical consensus had formed and ossified. |
| Illustrations: |
1 halftone. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |