Title:
Metaphysical animals : how four women brought philosophy back to life / Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman.
ISBN:
9780385545709
9781784743291
9781784743284
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Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House UK, London in 2022"--Copyright page.
Contents:
Prologue: Mr Truman's degree, Oxford, May 1956 -- On probation, Oxford, October 1938-September 1939 -- Learning in wartime, Oxford, September 1939-June 1942 -- Disorder and hardship, Cambridge & London, June 1942-August 1945 -- Park Town, Oxford, Brussels, Graz, Cambridge & Chiswick, September 1945-August 1947 -- A joint 'No!', Oxford & Cambridge, October 1947-July 1948 -- Back to life, Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin & Vienna, October 1948-January 1951 -- Metaphysical animals, Newcastle & Oxford, May 1950-February 1955 -- Epilogue: Mr Truman's degree, again, Oxford, May 1956 -- Afterwards.
Summary:
Four college friends-- Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley-- came of age during years of tumultuous events: Nazism, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The philosophy of the day struck them as inadequate for this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power. With most male undergraduates conscripted, the women shared ideas and created a philosophical revolution to counter the darkness of their times. - adapted from jacket
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OCLC Number:
on1289274891
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