Anthony Quinton, Anthony Kenny

Gebundenes Buch

Of Men and Manners

Essays Historical and Philosophical

Beschreibung

This is a collection of elegant and learned writings by the late Lord Quinton, one of the most prominent men of letters of the late twentieth century. The first part ranges over the last 400 years of intellectual history; in the second he discusses freedom, morality, politics, language, culture, and the relation between humans and animals.

Autor

Anthony Quinton (1925-2010) was a fellow of All Souls and New College, Oxford. From 1978 to 1987 he was President of Trinity College, Oxford, and President of the Aristotelian Society from 1975 to 1976. He is the author of numerous books, including The Nature of Things (1973), Utilitarian Ethics (1973), From Wodehouse To Wittgenstein (1998), Francis Bacon (Oxford, 1980), and Thoughts and Thinkers (1982). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1977, and made a life peer in 1983.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780199694556
• ISBN-10: 0199694559
• Artikelnr.: 35275385