Essays and Reviews : : 1959-2002 / / Bernard Williams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Williams, Bernard,
• MitwirkendeR: Austin, J.L.,; Ayer, A.J.,; Bambrough, Renford,; Blackwell, Kenneth,; Bok, Sissela,; Cook, Judith,; Cowling, Maurice,; Crossman, R.H.S.,; Dawkins, Richard,; Descartes, René,; Dreyfus, Hubert L.,; Dworkin, Ronald,; Elster, Jon,; Gergen, Kenneth J.,; Goldmann, Lucien,; Goudsblom, Johan,; Hampshire, Stuart,; Harman, Gilbert,; Harrington, Michael,; Heidegger, Martin,; Johnson, Paul,; Kolakowski, L.,; Lewis, C.S.,; MacIntyre, Alasdair,; MacKinnon, Catharine,; Mackie, J.L.,; Midgley, Mary,; Milo, Ronald,; Minsky, Marvin,; Moore, Barrington,; Murdoch, Iris,; Nagel, Thomas,; Nozick, Robert,; Nussbaum, Martha,; Parfit, Derek,; Putnam, Hilary,; Ramsey, Paul,; Rawls, John,; Rorty, Richard,; Schelling, Thomas C.,; Sen, Amartya,; Skinner, B.F.,; Sutherland, John,; Taylor, Charles,; Thompson, Michael,; Warnock, G.J.,; Williams, Patricia,; Wilson, Des,; Wood, Michael,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wood, Michael.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 1 halftone.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; 1. Plato Today --; 2. English Philosophy Since 1900 --; 3. Thought and Action --; 4. The Theological Appearance of the Church of England: An External View --; 5. The Four Loves --; 6. Discourse on Method --; 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 --; 11. The Concept of a Person --; 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 --; 17. Immanuel Kant --; 18. A Theory of Justice --; 19. Beyond Freedom and Dignity --; 20. What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason --; 21. Wisdom: Twelve Essays --; 22. The Socialist Idea --; 23. Anarchy, State and Utopia --; 24. The Ethics of Fetal Research --; 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 --; 27. Reflections on Language, by Noam Chomsky; On Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays --; 28. The Selfish Gene --; 29. The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists --; 30. The Logic of Abortion --; 31. On Thinking, by Gilbert Ryle --; 32. Rubbish Theory --; 33. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life --; 34. Logic and Society and Ulysses and the Sirens --; 35. The Culture of Narcissism, by Christopher Lasch; Nihilism and Culture --; 36. Religion and Public Doctrine in England --; 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 --; 38. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory --; 39. Philosophical Explanations --; 40. The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God --; 41. Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960-1982 --; 42. Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays 1972-1980) --; 43. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, vol. I, Cambridge Essays 1888-99 --; 44. Reasons and Persons --; 45. Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay --; 46. Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, by Sissela Bok; The Secrets File: The Case for Freedom of Information in Britain Today --; 47. Choice and Consequence --; 48. Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History --; 49. Ordinary Vices, by Judith Shklar; Immorality --; 50. The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the Belgrano Affair, by Clive Ponting; The Price of Freedom --; 51. Taking Sides: The Education of a Militant Mind --; 52. A Matter of Principle --; 53. The View from Nowhere --; 54. What Hope for the Humanities? --; 55. The Society of Mind --; 56. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? --; 57. Intellectuals --; 58. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity --; 59. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity --; 60. The Need to Be Sceptical --; 61. The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life --; 62. Realism with a Human Face --; 63. Political Liberalism --; 64. Inequality Reexamined --; 65. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics --; 66. Only Words --; 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 --; 70. Wagner and the Transcendence of Politics --; 71. Why Philosophy Needs History --; Acknowledgments --; Acknowledgments to Copyright Holders --; Index
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• ISBN: 9781400848393; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400848393?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bernard Williams.

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.