![]() ![]() ![]() If Magee's outlook is characterised by a single feature, it is a troubled sense of the unknown contrary to most analytic philosophers, who tend to the view that what we cannot know does not exist, Magee finds it natural to assume that there is infinitely more to reality than we can ever grasp. ![]() It is not hard to see why Kant should have made such an impression. Perhaps a certain greatness of the ego is a price that we have to pay for these rare qualities.Ī year at Yale proved more rewarding, and a seminar on Kant provided Magee with the first of a series of philosophical homecomings. He possesses a profound feeling for his subject and, more importantly, is able to articulate some of it on paper. Yet this unconventional, intense and combative work proves that Magee is no ordinary pundit. He has also written, among other books, two fine philosophical introductions - one to Popper and one to Schopenhauer - and a little work on Wagner's ideas.Īll this is impressive, but you might think it hardly enough to merit 500 pages of philosophical autobiography. In programmes like Conversations with Philosophers, Men of Ideas and The Great Philosophers of the Seventies and Eighties, he persuaded the leading philosophers of the age to take to the airwaves, and got them to talk intelligibly about their work. ![]() Bryan Magee has made a successful career for himself as a broadcaster of philosophy. ![]()
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