Brief Encounters - Notes from a Philosopher's Diary

Anthony Kenny looks back over many of the important people he has met and considers their achievements, flaws and foibles across a series of vignettes. Includes reflections on time with Noam Chomsky, Graham Greene, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher and many others.

About the author

Sir Anthony Kenny FBA was born in Liverpool in 1931, and was educated at Upholland College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 1963 to 1989 he was at Balliol College, Oxford, first as Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, and then as Master. He later became Warden of Rhodes House, President of the British Academy and of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and Chair of the Board of the British Library. He is the author of over forty books on philosophy and history, including OUP's four-volume New History of Western Philosophy and The Enlightenment: A very brief history (SPCK 2017).

Summary

Anthony Kenny's encounters with some of the leading religious, political and intellectual figures of our time.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Kenny, Kenny Anthony
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2018
• EAN: 9780281079193
• ISBN: 978-0-281-07919-3
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Memoirs, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs