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

• Autore: Akehurst Thomas L
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 146/.40941
• Soggetto topico: Analysis (Philosophy)
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 20th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The cultural politics of analytic philosophy
• ISBN: 1-282-59072-3; 9786612590726; 1-4411-6233-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780963603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum Studies in British Philosophy