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Not all at sea
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| Alastair Hannay |
| ISBN 9781849212083 |
| Paperback 368 pages |
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| Published 14 August 2020
UK Price £19.95
US Price $30.00 |
Kierkegaard scholars will be unfazed by the length of this memoir. Men will be encouraged by the relationships with women.
Yachts(wo)men may be surprised to learn there is life 'on the beach'. But this is not Mad Men meets Lucky Jim.
The lives of philosophers would be dull reading if they were as tidy as their thoughts often tend to be.
Alastair Hannay describes how he ‘slid’ into philosophy but found it a useful means of transport for a life framed here in metaphors of the sea, an unruly element that has played some part in a not always tidy life.
Although the philosophy option attracts some because it suits their talents, the less talented may look to it for guidance in making sense of their lives.
Hannay’s own ‘episodic’ interest led him by chance to a life-time of active engagement with philosophers of all kinds.
An encounter with the works of Søren Kierkegaard opened the way to a personal take on a profession that easily ends in abstractions but which, when its questions are brought down to earth, sees market-place and academic philosophy from a perspective that allows the one to enrich the other.
Alastair Hannay is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo.
He studied in Edinburgh and London, has taught in the USA and written several books, among them five on Søren Kierkegaard.
His first novella, Hello and Goodbye, Horace Hardcover was published in 2020
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