{"product_id":"metaphysical-animals-how-four-women-brought-philosophy-back-to-life-paperback","title":"Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClare Mac Cumhaill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRachael Wiseman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER - \u003c\/i\u003eA vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In \u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Animals, \u003c\/i\u003ea pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war's darkest revelations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to \u003ci\u003elife\u003c\/i\u003e. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. \u003ci\u003eWho am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness?\u003c\/i\u003e The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with expertise and flair, \u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Animals \u003c\/i\u003eis a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr CLARE MAC CUMHAILL and Dr RACHAEL WISEMAN are philosophy lecturers and friends. Mac Cumhaill is an expert in the philosophy of perception and aesthetics at Durham University, home of the Mary Midgley Papers; Wiseman lectures at Liverpool University and is a recognised authority on the work of Elizabeth Anscombe. They are the co-directors of www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk, a scholarly project that makes the case for analytic philosophy's first all-female philosophical school.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764595097888,"sku":"9781984898982","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9066de12feddcf3ae2ddcfa2344a4b0e.webp?v=1780253043","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/metaphysical-animals-how-four-women-brought-philosophy-back-to-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}