Philosophers and Friends

With a wealth of anecdote Dorothy Emmet looks back on the philosophers who made a personal impact on her. She brings to life the Oxford of the 1920s, and writes particularly about H.A. Pritchard and R.G. Collingwood. She knew A.N. Whitehead and Samuel Alexander, and remembers philosophers who struggled with political dilemmas when a number of intellectuals were turning to Marxism. Describing the post-war period she recalls R.B. Braithwaite, Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre and others. Her personal portraits will interest a wide readership, as well as making essential reading for professional philosophers.

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List of Plates - Foreword; B.Magee - Preface - Introductory - Philosophy in Oxford in the 1920's: H.A. Pritchard and R.G. Collingwood - A.D. Lindsay, Philosophy and Moral Democracy - Philosophy among the South Wales Miners - A.N. Whitehead in Cambridge, Massachusetts - Politics and Philosophy in the 1930s: John Macmurray and Reinhold Niebuhr - Samuel Alexander in Manchester - Philosophy in Manchester: Religion and Metaphysics. Michael Polanyi - Philosophy in Manchester: Theories in the Social Sciences: Max Gluckman and Alasdair MacIntyre - Retirement with Philosophers and Friends in Cambridge: R.B. Braithwaite and Margaret Masterman - Retrospect and Prospect - Index