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Parfit : A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality Hardcover
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- Publication Name
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- 9780691225234
- Book Title
- Parfit : a Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 9.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Philosophers, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General
- Item Weight
- 28.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 408 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691225230
ISBN-13
9780691225234
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057245981
Product Key Features
Book Title
Parfit : a Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Philosophers, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
28.1 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-040769
Reviews
" Parfit is written engagingly, ably balancing philosophy and biography. Readers outside the field will find Edmonds's descriptions of Parfit's philosophical contributions fascinating and clear. . . . Parfit's philosophy was philosophy at its best and Parfit is an excellent introduction to that philosophy and the life in which it grew to occupy such a central role." ---Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, "This fascinating biography. . .combines lucid philosophical exegesis with astute psychological analysis. Edmonds clearly loves his subject. . . and he documents his life with exhaustive honesty." ---Jane O'Grady, Literary Review, "It's hard to imagine a more sympathetic, fair-minded, and appropriately skilled biographer for Parfit than David Edmonds. . . . [An] excellent biography." ---Frank B. Farrell, Commonweal Magazine, " Edmonds has pulled it off, and few could be better suited to the task. . . . He writes stylishly, with a light touch. The book is packed with anecdotes that leaven the discussion of Parfit's weighty professional output. " ---Sarah Richmond, Times Literary Supplement, "Offering more than a thinker's life and career, Parfit is a crash course in the evolution of moral philosophy, and the best account I have read of what "doing philosophy" entails. . . . Superb." ---Heller McAlpin, Wall Street Journal, "David Edmonds has written an exemplary biography. It is thorough, revealing, and yet sympathetic, and written by someone who admires the life of someone he nevertheless confesses to find a very puzzling subject." ---Simon Blackburn, Society, " [Edmonds] manages to make Parfit's cloistered, eccentric life of the mind a source of endless astonishment. . . .It is surely the best biography of a philosopher since Ray Monk's hitherto peerless Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. " ---Julian Baggini, Prospect, Parfit made contributions to questions about identity, future generations, and freedom, but his central project was to argue for the objective nature of morality. Edmonds's companionable biography tracks this work while assembling a portrait of how Parfit grew from a young boy with strong moral intuitions to a kind, perfectionistic man who believed that the stakes of his mission were so high that he should devote almost all of his waking hours to it., "A fascinating and important person. I do highly recommend the biography." ---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist, "Rich and dense. . . . Parfit is a tremendous fabric of stories, memories, references, personal testimonies, research material and original quotations, and it is an equally, tremendously, heartfelt invitation to feel and engage with the rhythm and presence of a life. It is absorbing, fascinating, replete with occasions for pause and reflection, full of echoes of lives past, lives lived, lives almost obsessively examined." ---Mika Provata-Carlone, Bookanista, "This is both a fabulous book and a necessary biography of a significant Oxford academic who a lot of people have sort of heard of but can't quite place. . . . It will be a curiously dull reader to complete this volume and not be affected by some of the powerful ideas that are raised along the way." ---Richard Lofthouse, QUAD, "This biography combines lucid philosophical exegesis with astute psychological analysis. Edmonds clearly loves his subject. . . and he documents his life with exhaustive honesty." ---Jane O'Grady, Literary Review, "David Edmonds, himself philosophically trained, is a very engaging writer on the subject of philosophers' lives. . . . He treats his reader with respect, but knows that a spoonful of gossip, or biography, helps the philosophy go down. I recommend [ Parfit ] highly." ---Theodore Dalrymple, The Lamp, "Dave Edmonds is an adept populariser of recondite ideas and his book about Derek Parfit, the mysterious and reclusive philosopher who spent most of his adult life at All Souls College, is essential reading." ---Jason Cowley, The Times
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
192
Synopsis
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person. In Parfit , David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius. Believing that we should be less concerned with ourselves and more with the common good, Parfit dedicated himself to the pursuit of philosophical progress to an extraordinary degree. He always wore grey trousers and a white shirt so as not to lose precious time picking out clothes, he varied his diet as little as possible, and he had only one serious non-philosophical interest: taking photos of Oxford, Venice, and St. Petersburg. In the latter half of his life, he single-mindedly devoted himself to a desperate attempt to rescue secular morality -- morality without God -- by arguing that it has an objective, rational basis. For Parfit, the stakes could scarcely have been higher. If he couldn't demonstrate that there are objective facts about right and wrong, he believed, his life was futile and all our lives were meaningless. Connecting Parfit's work and life and offering a clear introduction to his profound and challenging ideas, Parfit is a powerful portrait of an extraordinary thinker who continues to have a remarkable influence on the world of ideas., From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person. In Parfit , David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius. Believing that we should be less concerned with ourselves and more with the common good, Parfit dedicated himself to the pursuit of philosophical progress to an extraordinary degree. He always wore gray trousers and a white shirt so as not to lose precious time picking out clothes, he varied his diet as little as possible, and he had only one serious non-philosophical interest: taking photos of Oxford, Venice, and St. Petersburg. In the latter half of his life, he single-mindedly devoted himself to a desperate attempt to rescue secular morality--morality without God--by arguing that it has an objective, rational basis. For Parfit, the stakes could scarcely have been higher. If he couldn't demonstrate that there are objective facts about right and wrong, he believed, his life was futile and all our lives were meaningless. Connecting Parfit's work and life and offering a clear introduction to his profound and challenging ideas, Parfit is a powerful portrait of an extraordinary thinker who continues to have a remarkable influence on the world of ideas.
LC Classification Number
B1649.P374E36 2023
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