- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 232
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780415371391
- Utgivelsesår: 2007
- Bidragsyter: Midgley, Mary (Newcastle Upon-Tyne University, UK)
In spite of her many books and public profile, little is known about Mary''s life. Part of a famous generation of women philosophers that includes Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Warnock and Iris Murdoch, Midgley tells us in vivid and humorous fashion how they cut a swathe through the arid landscape of 1950s British Philosophy, writing and arguing about the grand themes of character, beauty and the meaning of rudeness.
The mother of three children, her journey is one of a woman who during the 1950s and 1960s was fighting to combine a professional career with raising a family. In startling contrast to many of the academic stars of her generation, we learn that Midgley nearly became a novelist and started writing philosophy only when