EAN: 9781784743291

METAPHYSICAL ANIMALS - CLARE MAC CUMHAILL RACHA...

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK** *Picked as a Guardian read for summer 2022*'[A]
splendidly entertaining book  fizzing with character and incident' Spectator 'Invigorating...
told with terrific fluency and humour' Sunday Times____________'In philosophy  one must start
from scratch - & it takes a very long time to reach scratch' Iris Murdoch  Mary Midgley 
Philippa Foot and Elizabeth Anscombe were philosophy students at Oxford during the Second World
War when most male undergraduates (and many tutors) were conscripted. Taught by refugee
scholars  women and conscientious objectors  the four friends developed a philosophy that could
respond to the war's darkest revelations. How  they asked  do we find our way through the
devastation of what we have created? Not even the great thinkers of the past or the logical
innovators and Existentialists of the early twentieth century could make sense of this new
human reality. So  in search of an answer  the four friends set out to bring philosophy back to
life. Written with expertise and flair  Metaphysical Animals is a vivid blend of philosophy and
recovered history - bringing back the women who shared ideas  as well as sofas  shoes and even
lovers. Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the
war  four brilliant friends reinvigorated philosophy and created a way of ethical thinking that
remains with us today.

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