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The cultural politics of analytic philosophy : britishness and the spectre of Europe / Thomas L. Akehurst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akehurst, Thomas L.
- Series:
- Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Analysis (Philosophy).
- Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
- Germany.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831--Influence.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Influence.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a highly original study of analytic philosophy in twentieth-century British thought. ""British Analytic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century"" examines three generations of analytic philosophers, who between them founded the modern discipline of analytic philosophy in Britain. The book explores how philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, A.J. Ayer, Gilbert Ryle and Isaiah Berlin believed in a link between German aggression in the twentieth century and the nineteenth-century philosophy of Hegel and Nietzsche. Thomas L. Akehurst thus identifies in this political critique of continental phi
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Nazi Philosophy; Chapter 2 The Expulsion of the Invaders; Chapter 3 Philosophical Method: Virtue vs Vice; Chapter 4 The Virtuous Tradition: Analysis, Liberalism, Britishness; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612590726
- 9781282590724
- 1282590723
- 9781441162335
- 144116233X
- OCLC:
- 600096543
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