Metaphysical animals : how four women brought philosophy back to life
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Author
Contributors
Wiseman, Rachael, author.
Published
New York : Doubleday, [2022].
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
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192.23
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-374) and index.
Description
The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations. Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become.
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