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The Making of a Philosopher

The Making of a Philosopher

by Colin Mc Ginn (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Scribner
Published: 03 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0743231791
ISBN 13: 9780743231794

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McGinn is a distinguished philosopher, and a professor at Rutgers in New York. This elegantly reticent memoir is an autobiography of sorts - though one which is more interested in ideas than in self-revelation. We do get an account of him moving from a working-class childhood in Gillingham and Blackpool to the rarefied world of Oxford academia and beyond. But what McGinn is most interested in doing is providing an account of his journey through ideas - a kind of 'growth of the philosopher's mind'. He does this with unusual and admirable clarity, in a way which makes the book accessible without condescension. It's written with dry flashes of wit, and a certain amount of engaging self-deprecation.
Author Bio
Born in West Hartlepool and educated in Manchester and Oxford, Colin McGinn is professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.