The cultural politics of analytic philosophy : Britishness and the spectre of Europe / Thomas L. Akehurst.

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Akehurst, Thomas L

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9781441162335
144116233X
9781441126573
1441126570

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146/.40941 22

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B808.5 .A34 2010eb

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Contents:

Nazi philosophy -- The expulsion of the invaders -- Philosophical method : virtue vs. vice -- The virtuous tradition : analysis, liberalism, Britishness.

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 ...

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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 ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-207) and index.

Nazi philosophy -- The expulsion of the invaders -- Philosophical method : virtue vs. vice -- The virtuous tradition : analysis, liberalism, Britishness.

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