A.J. Ayer : a life / Ben Rogers.
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Rogers, Ben (Ben Mark) (författare)
- ISBN 0802116736
- 1st American ed.
- Publicerad: New York : Grove Press, ©1999
- Engelska 402 pages
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Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Teachers, Bankers, Merchants, Wives -- School-days -- Apprentice -- Student -- Homecoming -- Marriage among the Scientists -- Apostle -- Language, Truth and Logic, or the Philosophy of Nonsense -- Iconoclast, Hedonist -- Bright Young Things -- War: 'My New Profession' -- 'Good Enough, if Largely Unauthorised' -- The Meaning of Life -- Professor -- The London Freddie Ayer -- All Change -- Oxford, New York, Toulon -- Benthamite Saint -- Central Questions -- Retirement -- Old Age -- Resurrection.
- "Ben Rogers provides a clear and accessible account of Ayer's philosophical writings and assesses their significance to twentieth-century philosophy." "Rogers also offers fascinating insights into the links between Ayer's philosophy and his life. He guides us through the young philosopher's troubled years at Eton, using Ayer's experience there to create an indelible portrait of England's upper classes during the twilight years of Victorian privilege. He takes us to Oxford, where Ayer astounded his tutors with his acumen and iconoclastic zeal, and where he befriended Isaiah Berlin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, e. e. cummings, and other great thinkers and writers of the era."--Jacket.
Ämnesord
- Philosophers -- England -- Biography. (LCSH)
- Philosophers. (fast)
- England. (fast)
Genre
- Biographies. (fast)
- Biographies. (lcgft)
Personnamn
- Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910-1989.
- Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910-1989
Klassifikation
- B1618.A94 (LCC)
- 192 (DDC)
- B (DDC)
- Dbc-e (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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