Philosophers behaving badly /: Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.

Rodgers, Nigel.; Thompson, Mel,; ebrary, Inc.

Philosophers behaving badly / Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.

Rodgers, Nigel.; Thompson, Mel, 1946-; ebrary, Inc.

2005

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Author

Rodgers, Nigel.

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Ebrary electronic monographs.

Title

Philosophers behaving badly / Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.

Added Author

Thompson, Mel, 1946-

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ebrary, Inc.

Imprint

London ; Chester Speings : Peter Owen Publishers ; Chester Springs, Pa. : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2005.

Description

240 pages

Formatted Contents Note

A cautionary note
Introduction
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the philosopher as victim
Arthur Schopenhauer : the rebarbative bodhisattva
Friedrich Nietzsche : a sickly Übermensch
Feature : Nietzsche and Nazism
Bertrand Russell : the mathematics of human behaviour
Ludwig Wittgenstein : anger and asceticism
Martin Heidegger : magician, predator, peasant and Nazi
Feature : The Héloïse complex
Jean-Paul Sartre : intellectual tyranny, charm and bad faith
Feature : Women philosophers behaving badly
Michel Foucault : madness, sex and punishment
Feature : Demetrius, philosopher king of Athens.

Bibliography, etc. Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.

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Access provided by Berkeley Law Library

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English

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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0720612195 paperback
9780720612196
9780720613704 e-book

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