From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein: Essays (Lives & letters) - Softcover

This text addresses some of the central political, philosophical and religious issues. Divided into four sections, the book: examines large political and social questions, culminating in the question of modern ethics; applies ideas to specific social and educational concerns, including "The Idea of a University: Newman's and Others", and "The Idea of a National Library"; and takes a historical and thematic line to consider imperialism, property, madness and homosexuality. The final section begins with the author's essay on "The Inner Life" and looks at the claims of the imagination and the limits of subjectivity in the arts and the lives of artists and philosophers.

Widely known for his contribution to popular radio programmes including `Round Britain Quiz', ANTHONY QUINTON is an accessible and illuminating philosopher. Created Baron Quinton of Holywell in 1982, he was Chairman of the Board of the British Library from 1985-1990, President of Trinity College, Oxford (1978-1987), having been a Fellow of New College (and tutor in philosophy there) since 1955, and before that of All Souls. His earlier books include The Nature of Things, Utilitarian Ethics and The Politics of Imperfection: the religious and secular traditions of conservative thought in England from Hooker to Oakeshott, his 1978 T.S.Eliot Lectures. He edited the anthology Political Philosophy.