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This is the story of Ted Honderich's perilous progress from boyhood in Canada to the Grote Professorship of Mind and Logic at University College London, A. J. Ayer's chair. It is compelling, candid and revealing about the beginning and the goal, and everything in between: early work as a journalist on The Toronto Star, travels with Elvis Presley, arrival in Britain, loves and friendships, academic rivalries and battles, marriages and affairs, self-interest and empathy. It sets out resolutely to explain how and why it all happened. It is as much a narrative of Ted Honderich's philosophy. He makes hard problems real. Philosophy from consciousness and determinism to political violence and democracy comes into sharp focus. Along the way, questions keep coming up. Does the free marriage owe anything to the analytic philosophy? What are the costs of truth? Are the politics of England slowly making it an ever-better place? Is an action's rightness independent of the mixture of motives out of which it came? Philosopher sets brave new standards for the telling of a life. It is not filtered, veiled or varnished. It contains desire, hurt and drama.

Table of Contents:
1: This Green Summer; 2: Village; 3: City, School, Saturdays, Girls; 4: From University Distracted, First Love; 5: Awake in England; 6: Bracing Life, Assigned to Punishment, Married Again; 7: A Department Joined, Moral and Political Utterances; 8: Nadir, Determinism Again, America; 9: Academic Battles, Political Violence, an Ending; 10: Effects, a Proud Scot, Justice, 4 Keats Grove; 11: The Higher Social Life, Chancery Court, much Else; 12: Mind and Brain etc., Anathema; 13: Professor, Psychoneural Intimacy, Disarrays; 14: Mental and other Events, Johnny, Determinism done; 15: Life-Hopes, the Grote, an Idea'd Girl; 16: Harmless Drudge, Functionalism, Socialist Landlord; 17: Ingrid, Court Again; 18: Consciousness as Existence, Farewells; 19: Coda

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"Of all lives, the inner life of a philosopher is the hardest to capture on the page ... Ted Honderich has done the job." -"The London Times ..." a triumph ... a public thinker with rich inner and private lives and no compunction about making himself vulnerable ... thrilling, intellectually fraught." -"The Guardian ..."rough-hewn alpha male in the academic world, whose record of boozing, schmoozing and womanizing stands almost scandalously proud of the philosophical pack." -"The Journal of Consciousness Studies ..."an unusual book ... just what academic and philosophical life was like in the second half of the 20th Century." -"The Spectator ..."brutally honest self-portrait of a man whose passion for ideas and good-looking women has burned unabated." -"The Financial Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415276313
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 468
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415276314
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 548 gr


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