Confessions of a Philosopher : A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper

Name: Confessions of a Philosopher : A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper
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ISBN: 9780375500282

ISBN-10: 0375500286

ISBN-13: 9780375500282

Edition: 1998

Authors: Bryan Magee

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Already called "a masterpiece,"* this brilliant, beautifully written memoir introduces mainstream readers to all of the outstanding figures of Western philosophy. "Until I was five I shared a bed with my sister, three years older than me. After our parents had switched out the light we would chatter away in the darkness until we fell asleep. But I could never afterwards remember falling asleep. It was always the same: one moment I was talking to my sister in the dark, and the next I was waking up in a sunlit room having been asleep all night. Yet every night there must have come a time when I stopped talking and settled down to sleep. It was incomprehensible to me that I did not experience…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Bryan Magee has had a distinguished career as a university professor, music and theater critic, member of Parliament, and author. He is well known for two popular BBC television series on philosophy. Among his internationally acclaimed books are The Story of Philosophy, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, and Aspects of Wagner. He lives in London.

Scenes from Childhood	p. 3
My Introduction to Academic Philosophy	p. 18
Logical Positivism and Its Refutation	p. 34
Linguistic Analysis	p. 55
The Inadequacy of Linguistic Philosophy	p. 74
The Problem of Perception	p. 91
What Can Be Shown but Not Said	p. 107
A Yale Education	p. 123
The Discovery of Kant	p. 139
Professional Versus Amateur Philosophy	p. 163
Getting to Know Popper	p. 179
Getting to Know Russell	p. 203
First Attempts at a Political Philosophy	p. 213
The Search for Meaning	p. 228
Mid-Life Crisis	p. 252
A Philosophical Novel	p. 276
Groves of Academe	p. 304
In Praise of Popularization	p. 317
The Limits of Philosophy	p. 336
The Discovery of Schopenhauer	p. 350
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer	p. 374
Philosophy on Television	p. 403
The Main Split in Contemporary Philosophy	p. 412
Left Wondering	p. 431
Index	p. 465
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