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008 150128s2015 nyu 000 0 eng
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020 $a9781472590114 (hardback)
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100 1 $aEllis, David,$d1939-
245 10 $aFrank Cioffi :$bthe philosopher in shirt-sleeves /$cDavid Ellis ; with an afterword by Nicholas Bunnin.
263 $a1506
264 1 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury Academic,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A high school drop-out who served in the American army and then managed to slip into Oxford on the G.I. bill, Frank Cioffi gained a considerable public reputation in Freudian and Wittgensteinian circles. Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Context is an account of his conversation is written in a Boswellian spirit, capturing the sharp intelligence, boisterous sense of humour and wealth of illustration Cioffi was able to bring to bear on life's biggest problems when he was, as if were, off-duty. Tackling subjects such as the unruly body, the challenge of art, dealing with failure, the lure of science, the meaning of life, our understanding of others, depression, the case for suicide, and death, David Ellis describes how a philosopher who was profoundly influenced by Wittgenstein dealt with general issues and creates a vivid impression of an unusual and gifted individual. This portrait is followed by a post-script in which Nicholas Bunnin, who worked in the philosophy department at Essex when Cioffi was a professor there, situates him in a more strictly academic context and discusses his less well-known essays on literary criticism and the behavioural sciences, arguing for Cioffi's potential to inspire those seeking a role for analytic philosophy within the broader scope of humanistic philosophy. A mixture of personal portrait and academic introduction, Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Context provides an elegant and enjoyable tribute to Cioffi as both man and philosopher"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine 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 directions12. Aesthetics13. The meaning of life14. Pessimism and suicide15. Death16. ConclusionAfterword by Nicholas Bunnin: Frank Cioffi as PhilosopherMajor works of Frank CioffiIndex.
600 10 $aCioffi, Frank.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPSYCHOLOGY / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aBunnin, Nicholas,$ewriter of afterword.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/114/9781472590114/image/lgcover.9781472590114.jpg