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The women are up to something : how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics / Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret).
- Anscombe, G. E. M.
- Foot, Philippa.
- Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018.
- Midgley, Mary.
- Murdoch, Iris.
- Women philosophers--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women philosophers.
- Ethics--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Ethics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Other Title:
- How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This the story of four philosophers - Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch - who helped shape the intellectual history of the 20th century, reviving the ethical imagination of their time and ours. The Second World War gave these four women their chance, as they pursued roles formerly reserved for men. But they succeeded because of their formidable intelligence and because of who they were: a combative Catholic convert who never cared whom she offended; her unlikely best friend, an atheist who grew up in a world of class and manners; a woman who spent a decade and a half raising her boys, publishing the first of her sixteen books at almost 60; and a mystical novelist who gradually drifted away from the academy. This is a book for those interested in these vivid characters, in the first school of women philosophers, or in alternative ways of thinking about how to live.
- Contents:
- 1. Facts and Values
- 2. Oxford in Wartime
- 3. Daughters of 1919
- 4. The Coming Philosophers
- 5. Murdoch's Diagnosis
- 6. Elizabeth Anscombe versus the World
- 7. The Somerville Senior Common Room
- 8. Slipping Out Over the Wall
- 9. "Time, Like the Sea..."
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-754109-7
- 0-19-754110-0
- 0-19-754108-9
- OCLC:
- 1257402649
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