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A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at
Oxford, 1900-1960
Sinopsis :
A lively, immersive account of the colorful and brilliant
philosophers who roamed the halls of mid-twentieth-century
Oxford and taught the world the importance of
language&#8220Ths is Oxford philosophy in the round. The
philosophical arguments, the personal lives, the colorful
quotes, the elbow patches and buttered
crumpets&#8212brlliantly written.&#8221#8212James
Franklin, author of Corrupting the Youth: A History of
Philosophy in AustraliaWhat are the limits of language? How
can philosophy be brought closer to everyday life? What is a
good human being?These were among the questions that
philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a

period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response
to these events, thinkers such as Philippa Foot (originator of
the famous trolley problem), Isaiah Berlin, Iris
Murdoch,Elizabeth Anscombe, Gilbert Ryle, and J. L. Austin
aspired to a new level of watchfulness and self-awareness
about language as a way of keeping philosophy true to
everyday experience.A Terribly Serious Adventure traces the
friendships and the rivalries, the shared preoccupations and
the passionate disagreements of some of Oxford&#8217most
innovative thinkers. Far from being stuck in their ivory towers,
the Oxford philosophers lived. They were codebreakers,
diplomats, and soldiers in both World Wars, and they often
drew on their real-world experience in creating their greatest
works, masterpieces of British modernism original in both
thought and style.teeped in the dramatic history of the
twentieth century, A Terribly Serious Adventure is an eyeopening
look inside the rooms that changed how we think
about our world.heddinglight on the lives and intellectual
achievements of a large and spirited cast of
characters,Cambridge academic NikhilKrishnan shows us how
much we can still learn from the Oxford philosophers.In our
fractious, post-truth world, their acute sense of responsibility
for their words, their passionate desire to get the little things
right, stands as an inspiring example.