Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the selfportrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic.
 The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the states, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century, including Bertrand Russell, JeanPaul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky, alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors, especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. 
 McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page.

Making of a Philosopher, The: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Biographies & Memoirs

COLIN MCGINN

Historical

Harper-perennial

The Making of a Philosopher

Colin McGinn attempts to make basic philosophical concepts accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". This book is an introduction to the basic questions of modern philiosophy as well as being a personal story.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Scribner

McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". The result is part memoir, part introduction to philosophy; the self-portrait of an inquiring mind engaged by the radicalism of both rock 'n' roll and Bertrand Russell, taking McGinn from a mining family in West Hartlepool to New York as Rutgers Professor of Philosophy.

Eternal Questions, Timeless Approaches

Barnes and Noble Audio

Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the states, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century, including Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky, alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors, especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page.

The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth Century Philosophy

Colin McPhilamy

Professionals & Academics

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