A.J. Ayer : a life

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Title:

A.J. Ayer : a life

Author:

Rogers, Ben (Ben Mark)

ISBN:

9780802116734

Personal Author:

Rogers, Ben (Ben Mark)

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Grove Press, c1999.

Physical Description:

402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London, England : Chatto & Windus, 1999.

"Principal publications of A.J. Ayer": p. 306.

Abstract:

"Ben Rogers provides a clear and accessible account of Ayer's philosophical writings and assesses their significance to twentieth-century philosophy." "Rogers also offers fascinating insights into the links between Ayer's philosophy and his life. He guides us through the young philosopher's troubled years at Eton, using Ayer's experience there to create an indelible portrait of England's upper classes during the twilight years of Victorian privilege. He takes us to Oxford, where Ayer astounded his tutors with his acumen and iconoclastic zeal, and where he befriended Isaiah Berlin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, e. e. cummings, and other great thinkers and writers of the era."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Ayer, A. J. (Alfred Jules), 1910-1989.

Subject Term:

Philosophers -- England -- Biography.

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A. J. Ayer (1910 -- 1989) was a man of startling complexity: an exceptionally rigorous and penetrating philosopher, he was also a dedicated hedonist and seducer. He traveled in the most glamorous social circles, yet his friends found him oddly remote. Internationally acclaimed author Ben Rogers brings the brilliant, strangely vulnerable author of the classic Language, Truth, and Logic to vivid life, along with the Oxford intellectual world where he met Isaiah Berlin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and many other great thinkers and writers of the era. Colorful, intimate, and often poignant, this is a powerful biography of a provocative and unforgettable man whose ideas changed the landscape of Western thought.