Essays and Reviews 1959–2002

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Bernard Williams, Michael Wood
ISBN:
9781400848393
Related ISBNs:
9780691168609, 9780691159850
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2017-09-23
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2016
Copyright by:
Princeton University Press 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Philosophy