Essays and Reviews : 1959-2002 / Bernard Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Bernard, author.

Contributor:

Wood, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, British--20th century.

Philosophy, British.

Philosophy, English--20th century.

Philosophy, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (824 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews. Williams writes about a broad range of subjects, from philosophy to science, the humanities, economics, feminism, and pornography.Included are reviews of major books such as John Rawls's Theory of Justice, Richard Rorty's Consequences of Pragmatism, and Martha Nussbaum's Therapy of Desire. But many of these essays extend beyond philosophy, providing an intellectual tour through the past half century, from C. S. Lewis to Noam Chomsky. No matter the subject, readers see a first-class mind grappling with landmark books in "real time," before critical consensus had formed and ossified.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Wood, Michael

1. Plato Today / Crossman, R.H.S.

2. English Philosophy Since 1900 / Warnock, G.J.

3. Thought and Action / Hampshire, Stuart

4. The Theological Appearance of the Church of England: An External View

5. The Four Loves / Lewis, C.S.

6. Discourse on Method / Descartes, René

7. The Individual Reason: L'esprit laïc

8. What Is Existentialism?

9. Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, by Jean-Paul Sartre

10. Sense and Sensibilia and Philosophical Papers / Austin, J.L.

11. The Concept of a Person / Ayer, A.J.

12. Two Faces of Science

13. The English Moralists, by Basil Willey

14. Universities: Protest, Reform and Revolution

15. Has 'God' a Meaning?

16. Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage / Ayer, A.J.

17. Immanuel Kant / Goldmann, Lucien

18. A Theory of Justice / Rawls, John

19. Beyond Freedom and Dignity / Skinner, B.F.

20. What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason / Dreyfus, Hubert L.

21. Wisdom: Twelve Essays / Bambrough, Renford

22. The Socialist Idea / Hampshire, Stuart / Kolakowski, L.

23. Anarchy, State and Utopia / Nozick, Robert

24. The Ethics of Fetal Research / Ramsey, Paul

25. The Moral View of Politics

26. The Life of Bertrand Russell, by Ronald W. Clark; The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love, by Dora Russell; My Father Bertrand Russell, by Katharine Tait; Bertrand Russell / Ayer, A.J.

27. Reflections on Language, by Noam Chomsky; On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays / Harman, Gilbert

28. The Selfish Gene / Dawkins, Richard

29. The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists / Murdoch, Iris

30. The Logic of Abortion

31. On Thinking, by Gilbert Ryle

32. Rubbish Theory / Thompson, Michael

33. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life / Bok, Sissela

34. Logic and Society and Ulysses and the Sirens / Elster, Jon

35. The Culture of Narcissism, by Christopher Lasch; Nihilism and Culture / Goudsblom, Johan

36. Religion and Public Doctrine in England / Cowling, Maurice

37. Nietzsche on Tragedy, by M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern; Nietzsche: A Critical Life, by Ronald Hayman; Nietzsche, vol. 1, The Will to Power as Art / Heidegger, Martin

38. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory / MacIntyre, Alasdair

39. Philosophical Explanations / Nozick, Robert

40. The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God / Mackie, J.L.

41. Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982 / Sutherland, John

42. Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays 1972-1980) / Rorty, Richard

43. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, vol. I, Cambridge Essays 1888-99 / Blackwell, Kenneth

44. Reasons and Persons / Parfit, Derek

45. Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay / Midgley, Mary

46. Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, by Sissela Bok; The Secrets File: The Case for Freedom of Information in Britain Today / Wilson, Des

47. Choice and Consequence / Schelling, Thomas C.

48. Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History / Moore, Barrington

49. Ordinary Vices, by Judith Shklar; Immorality / Milo, Ronald

50. The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the Belgrano Affair, by Clive Ponting; The Price of Freedom / Cook, Judith

51. Taking Sides: The Education of a Militant Mind / Harrington, Michael

52. A Matter of Principle / Dworkin, Ronald

53. The View from Nowhere / Nagel, Thomas

54. What Hope for the Humanities?

55. The Society of Mind / Minsky, Marvin

56. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? / MacIntyre, Alasdair

57. Intellectuals / Johnson, Paul

58. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity / Rorty, Richard

59. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity / Taylor, Charles

60. The Need to Be Sceptical

61. The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life / Gergen, Kenneth J.

62. Realism with a Human Face / Putnam, Hilary

63. Political Liberalism / Rawls, John

64. Inequality Reexamined / Sen, Amartya

65. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics / Nussbaum, Martha

66. Only Words / MacKinnon, Catharine

67. The Limits of Interpretation, Interpretation and Overinterpretation, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, Apocalypse Postponed, Misreadings, and How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays, by Umberto Eco

68. On Hating and Despising Philosophy

69. The Last Word / Nagel, Thomas

70. Wagner and the Transcendence of Politics

71. Why Philosophy Needs History

Acknowledgments / Williams, Patricia

Acknowledgments to Copyright Holders

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780691168609

0691168601

9781400898695

1400898692

9781400848393

1400848393

OCLC:

864383223