A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60

Author: Nikhil Krishnan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A real achievement' New Statesman 'Beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and profundity, exuberance and rigour, of Oxford analytic philosophy' TLS What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What makes a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and...Read more