Frank Cioffi : the philosopher in shirt-sleeves / David Ellis ; with an afterword by Nicholas Bunnin...
Frank Cioffi : the philosopher in shirt-sleeves / David Ellis ; with an afterword by Nicholas Bunnin...
Frank Cioffi : the philosopher in shirt-sleeves / David Ellis ; with an afterword by Nicholas Bunnin.
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G 2015/1939
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English
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Physical content
189 pages ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements1. Sunday afternoons2. The unruly body and Goffman3. Remembering the past4. The moral career5. Failure and retirement6. The lives of others7. Organicism8. The lure of science9. But why then do we read biographies?10. A sense of humour11. The two di...
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England
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"A high school drop-out who served in the American army and then managed to slip into Oxford on the G.I. bill, Frank Cioffi gained a considerable public reputation in Freudian and Wittgensteinian circles. Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Context is an account of his conversation is written in a Boswellian spirit, capturing the sharp intelligence, b...
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Frank Cioffi : the philosopher in shirt-sleeves / David Ellis ; with an afterword by Nicholas Bunnin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/1939
Record Identifier
74VK7mWGmK6X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7mWGmK6X
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ISBN
1472590112 (hardback)
9781472590114 (hardback)
DDC
191
MMS ID
991022738859702626
