J. L. Austin
Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer
(Sprache: Englisch)
J. L. Austin was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, but also an intelligence officer in the Second World War. This revelatory biography explores Austin's complex character, his remarkable achievements in war and peace, and...
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J. L. Austin was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, but also an intelligence officer in the Second World War. This revelatory biography explores Austin's complex character, his remarkable achievements in war and peace, and the surprisinglty dramatic events in his personal life.
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- Part I: Pre-War
- 1: Origins: c. 1670-1911
- 2: Childhood: 1911-1924
- 3: Shrewsbury: 1924-1929
- 4: Balliol: 1929-1933
- 5: Philosophy in Oxford: 1918-1933
- 6: All Souls: 1933-1935
- 7: Collingwood, C. I. Lewis, and Aristotle: 1935-1938
- 8: The Brethren, Politics, and Wittgenstein: 1937-1940
- Part II: War
- 9: Jean and the Army: 1939-1941
- 10: MI14, Marriage, and North African Intelligence: 1941
- 11: Injury, Scotland, and the Desert War: 1941-1942
- 12: The Coming of the Martians: 1942
- 13: Norfolk House, Dieppe, and Torch: 1942
- 14: Skyscraper, Invade Mecum, and Exile: 1943
- 15: The Hunt for the V-Weapons: 1943-1944
- 16: At Peter Robinson's: 1943-1944
- 17: Towards D-Day: 1944
- 18: D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: 1944
- 19: Arnhem and the Ardennes: 1944-1945
- 20: War's End: 1945
- Part III: Post-War
- 21: Post-War Britain and Oxford: 1945-1947
- 22: 'Other Minds': 1946-1947
- 23: Ordinary Language Philosophy: 1947-1959
- 24: The Oral and the Written: 1947-1959
- 25: Sense and Sensibilia: 1947-1959
- 26: Truth and Logic: 1950-1952
- 27: White's Professor: 1952-1954
- 28: Domestic Life and the Americans: 1952-1954
- 29: Harvard and Speech-Acts: 1955
- 30: Abilities and Excuses: 1956-1957
- 31: Royaumont and Anscombe: 1958
- 32: California, Semantics, and Sound Symbolism: 1958-1959
- 33: Ayer, Scandinavia, and the Gellner Controversy: 1959
- 34: Final Illness: 1959-1960
Autoren-Porträt von M. W. Rowe
M. W. Rowe is an Honorary Researcher in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He was educated at Cranbrook School and Cambridge and York Universities. He was formerly Head of English at Pocklington School, Yorkshire, Lecturer in Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UEA. He is particularly interested in military history, linguistic philosophy, classical music, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and the intersections between philosophy and literature. In addition to his work on J. L. Austin, he is currently supervising a recording of the complete works of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812-65).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: M. W. Rowe
- 2023, XV, 660 Seiten, Maße: 18,5 x 25,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198707584
- ISBN-13: 9780198707585
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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