A new collection of essays on our conflicted and prejudiced world by the best-selling author of The God Argument and The Reason of Things
A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups.
Grayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of
moral discourse
*Sunday Times*
Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional
aphoristic twist, conscious of standing in that long essayistic
tradition that runs from Montaigne and Bacon to Emerson and
Thoreau
*Daily Telegraph*
If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it is
A. C. Grayling
*The Times*
The range of topics he covers is impressively broad, taking in
subjects as diverse as the ethics of drone warfare, the nature of
the mind and the meaning of happiness … “Informed and considered”
also nicely describes his urbane and eminently reasonable
intellectual style … At his best, Grayling is a tough-minded
proponent of the kind of enlightened rationalism expounded by
several of the public intellectuals with whom he declares an
affinity here: Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins and Christopher
Hitchens, to name only three. But he’s more historically-minded
than Russell, less dogmatic than Dawkins and less in thrall to the
charms of his own fluency than Hitchens
*Prospect*
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