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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456704003321

Autore

Akehurst Thomas L

Titolo

The cultural politics of analytic philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : britishness and the spectre of Europe / / Thomas L. Akehurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2010

ISBN

1-282-59072-3

9786612590726

1-4411-6233-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Continuum Studies in British Philosophy

Disciplina

146/.40941

Soggetti

Analysis (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Nazi Philosophy; Chapter 2 The Expulsion of the Invaders; Chapter 3 Philosophical Method: Virtue vs Vice; Chapter 4 The Virtuous Tradition: Analysis, Liberalism, Britishness; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 continental phi