Philosophers Behaving Badly

Nigel Rodgers; Mel Thompson
Peter Owen Publishers
9780720612196
0-7206-1219-5

An engaging and often hilarious survey of the far-from-fusty extra-curricular activities of some of philosophy s finest practitioners"Philosophers Behaving Badly" examines the lives of eight great philosophersRousseau,.

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whose views on education and the social order seem curiously at odds with his own outrageous life; Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, two giants of the 19th century whose words seem ever more relevant today; and five immensely influential philosophers of the 20th century, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, and Foucault."