A. J. Ayer : A Life Hardback
by Ben Rogers
Hardback
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Freddie Ayer (1910-89) was one of the most influential philosophers of his generation, while his television and radio appearances, especially in the original `Brains Trust', made him Britain's first 'media philosopher'.
In this lively, penetrating study - the first, fully authorised, biography - Ben Rogers relates Ayer's ideas to his remarkable life, strangely troubled beneath its glamorous surface.
The 'quintessentially British' thinker was the only child of a Swiss-French father and Dutch-Jewish mother; after a lonely childhood he found his true role at Oxford.
A friend of Isaiah Berlin, and a follower first of Bertrand Russell, and then of Wittgenstein.
Ayer won fame at twenty-four with his brilliantly iconoclastic LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC - an essential text for students ever since.
Ben Rogers shows Ayer at work, in London, Oxford and America, and also at play, as a passionate follower of cricket and football, a great dancer, a lover of witty conversation and beautiful women.
Married four times, Ayer was a leading figure in London 'cafe society', yet he was also a controversial public figure and broadcaster, vehemently left-wing in the 1930s, and later President of the British Humanist Association and the Homosexual Law Reform Society.
Colourful, inimate, zestful and often poignant, this is a powerful biography.
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- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:10/06/1999
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- ISBN:9780701163167
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- Pages:416 pages
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