A. J. Ayer was also Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University. His many distinguished books include Language,
Truth and Logic, The Problems of Knowledge, The Concept of a Person and Other Essays, and works on Bertrand Russell
and Thomas Paine.
O'Grady, Jane (Ed.) :
Jane O'Grady studied Philosophy at University College, London. After teaching for some years she worked as a
literary journalist, columnist and short-story writer. She has published a book of short stories and articles entitled
Obsessions.
Review
"Everybody should have a copy."
--Auberon Waugh, The Sunday Telegraph
"The spread of philosophers is huge - more than 330 jostle in the book ... I cannot think of any figure who
is missing from this roll-call ... this is not really a book of quotations as we know it but something far more
mighty."
--Literary Review
"The most surprising philosophers do come across. One gets a fair impression of Derrida, and the quotations
from Adorno present a whole philosophy in brief digestible form."
--Times Literary Supplement
Blackwell Publishers Web Site, February, 2001
Summary
This dictioanry is the first to anatomize the philosophical tradition and to show the thoughts, paradoxes, errors
and breakthroughs that underlie human speculation. Organized alphabetically by philosopher, and comprehensively
indexed by thought and concept, it enables readers to discover who said what, and what was said by whom. More than
three hundred philosophers are represented, from Aristotle to Zeno, among them Aquinas, De Beauvoir, Einstein and
Sartre, and the quotations range from short, cryptic phrases to lengthy statements.
Table of Contents
1. Publisher's Note.
2. Preface by Jane O'Grady.
3. The Dictionary: A-Z.
4. Index.
