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Metaphysische Tiere: Wie vier Frauen Philosophie wieder zum Leben erweckten
by Mac Cumhaill, Clare; Wiseman,... | HC | VeryGood
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385545703
ISBN-13
9780385545709
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27050420135
Product Key Features
Book Title
Metaphysical Animals : How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Philosophers, Women Authors, Feminist, Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year
2022
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Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
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1.4 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Trade
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2021-056235
Reviews
" Metaphysical Animals makes impressively light-footed work of bringing philosophy in. The reader feels as if in the midst of a lively discussion over crumpets at a Lyons tearoom . . . The payoff is four glorious heroines, confident and curious, focused on the world and not themselves. Reading this book was like a miraculous holiday from modern life." --The Spectator (U.K.) "Lively . . . This fascinating work of historico-logico-feminism shows . . . how women fought their way on to the world stage of philosophy and turned its spotlight away from an analytical desert on to what was really important - moral clarity, wisdom and truth." --Sunday Times (U.K.) "Irresistible. . . Highly evocative . . . Bring[s] to life an important episode in intellectual history, and [has] made me again grateful that I was for a time a contemporary of these unforgettable women." --London Review of Books "The narrative is of four brilliant women finding their voices, opposing received wisdom, and developing an alternative picture of human beings and their place in the world . . . To read this story is to be reminded . . . that the life of the mind can be as intense and eventful as friendship itself." --Guardian (U.K.) "How did it come about that in the epoch of the greatest imaginable political evil, of the Holocaust and of the Gulag, of Hitler and Stalin, Oxford philosophy tended to empty moral terms of any absolute significance? It fell to four women philosophers, each born in the years between 1918 and 1920, to object to this sad state of affairs. They then set about - each in her different way - a root-and-branch reform of moral philosophy. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman have written a wonderful, important and also a necessary book, which sets the record straight, is brim-full of fascinating detail and which honours and celebrates a remarkable quartet of women thinkers." --Peter Conradi, " Metaphysical Animals makes impressively light-footed work of bringing philosophy in. The reader feels as if in the midst of a lively discussion over crumpets at a Lyons tearoom . . . The payoff is four glorious heroines, confident and curious, focused on the world and not themselves." -- The Spectator (U.K.) "Lively . . . This fascinating work of historico-logico-feminism shows . . . how women fought their way on to the world stage of philosophy and turned its spotlight away from an analytical desert on to what was really important - moral clarity, wisdom and truth." --Sunday Times (U.K.) "Irresistible. . . Highly evocative . . . Bring[s] to life an important episode in intellectual history, and [has] made me again grateful that I was for a time a contemporary of these unforgettable women." --London Review of Books "The narrative is of four brilliant women finding their voices, opposing received wisdom, and developing an alternative picture of human beings and their place in the world . . . To read this story is to be reminded . . . that the life of the mind can be as intense and eventful as friendship itself." --Guardian (U.K.) "It''s a compelling story, about four brilliant thinkers . . . This is a world where people gossip . This is a world that is -- that most criminally unphilosophical of all things perhaps -- cozy . . . It might not always be recognizably "philosophical" -- but this is the point of the book . . . a masterful argument, made not only by the book''s content, but by its form. Philosophy and life are united, the book seems to be saying: not only by default, but as upbringing; as education. A philosophical life is a life lived with others -- however cozy those relationships might be." --Gawker "In their unfashionable view that it is possible, as Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman put it, to ''use [the] language of morals and speak of objective moral truth'', and their conviction that human beings are ''social, creative, curious, spiritual'' creatures rather than mere ''efficient calculating machines'', the four heroines of this book were untimely. They resisted the zealots who thought most of the traditional problems of philosophy could be dissolved provided we paid close enough attention to the way language works. As an account of four young women who sought to ''bring philosophy back to life'', Metaphysical Animals is a portrait in intellectual courage." -- The Financial Times (U.K) "As the authors state, on the heels of a pandemic, ''it is perhaps time to ask again, as these women did after the Second World War: What sort of animal is a human being?'' Philosophy aficionados will relish the discussion." --Booklist "This edifying debut by philosophy professors Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman tells the stories of four female philosophy pioneers: Mary Midgley, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch . . . the research is thorough and provides a cogent counternarrative to traditional male-centric histories of mid-20th-century philosophy. These four philosophers might not appear on standard syllabi, but this detailed chronicle makes a persuasive case that they should." --Publishers Weekly "How did it come about that in the epoch of the greatest imaginable political evil, of the Holocaust and of the Gulag, of Hitler and Stalin, Oxford philosophy tended to empty moral terms of any absolute significance? It fell to four women philosophers, each born in the years between 1918 and 1920, to object to this sad state of affairs. They then set about - each in her different way - a root-and-branch reform of moral philosophy. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman have written a wonderful, important and also a necessary book, which sets the record straight, is brim-full of fascinating detail and which honours and celebrates a remarkable quartet of women thinkers." --Peter Conradi, " Metaphysical Animals makes impressively light-footed work of bringing philosophy in. The reader feels as if in the midst of a lively discussion over crumpets at a Lyons tearoom . . . The payoff is four glorious heroines, confident and curious, focused on the world and not themselves. Reading this book was like a miraculous holiday from modern life." --The Spectator (UK)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
192
Synopsis
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. 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. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today., A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. 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. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.
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