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Reading Bernard Williams

By: Daniel Callcut (Editor)

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Paperback | 27 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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306 Pages

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23.39 x 15.6 x 1.63

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When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him 'as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation'. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and philosophy in general.
Reading Bernard Williams examines the astonishing scope of his philosophy from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy. An international line up of outstanding contributors discuss, amongst others, the following central aspects of Williams's work:

Williams's challenge to contemporary moral philosophy and his criticisms of 'absolute' theories of morality

reason and rationality

the good life

the emotions

Williams and the phenomenological tradition

philosophical and political agency

moral and political luck

ethical relativism

Contributors: Simon Blackburn; John Cottingham; Frances Ferguson; Joshua Gert; Peter Goldie; Charles Guignon; Sharon Krause; Christopher Kutz; Daniel Markovits; Elijah Millgram; Martha Naussbaum; Carol Rovane

Industry Reviews

'This fine volume of essays should be read by anyone with an interest in how ethics relates to metaphysics, rationality, narrative, and politics. It should also, of course, be read by anyone with an interest in Bernard Williams.' - A. W. Moore, ETHICS

'Reading Bernard Williams collects the work of many fine philosophers who have read Bernard Williams with great profit and provides an ideal point of entry for those who have not yet had that pleasure. Since Williams' work is often more difficult than it appears, it is extremely helpful to have a book that offers so many clear-eyed critical explications of his ideas.' - Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University, USA

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