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  3. Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9780511498336
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498336
Subjects:
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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Book description

Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics, education and literature. He was deeply involved in the founding of the first college for women at the University of Cambridge. He was also much concerned with the sexual politics of his close friend John Addington Symonds, a pioneer of gay studies. Through his famous student, G. E. Moore, a direct line can be traced from Sidgwick and his circle to the Bloomsbury group. Bart Schultz has written a magisterial overview of this great Victorian sage. This biography will be eagerly sought out by readers interested in philosophy, Victorian literary studies, the history of ideas, the history of psychology and gender and gay studies.

Reviews

Review of the hardback:‘The style is lively and direct … there is a deep, complex and carefully thought out thesis running through the work, one that strikes me as insightful and extremely useful in seeing Sidgwick’s life and work altogether…’

J. B. Schneewind - Author of Sidgwick’s Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy

Review of the hardback:‘… does justice, at last, to the greatest exponent of utilitarian ethics, and one of the greatest moral philosophers of all time.’

Source: The Irish Times

Review of the hardback:‘No brief review can do justice either to this rich and massive book or to the man who is its subject. … Any future biographical or philosophical study of Sidgwick will have to begin from this volume. … I found reading it a stimulating and rewarding experience.’

Source: Journal of the Society of Psychical Research

Review of the hardback:‘This is an extraordinary - and extraordinarily interesting - book, a model of intellectual biography.’

Source: London Review of Books

Review of the hardback:‘… he has produced a magnificent, close-focus study of the progress of a fine-honed intelligence in ongoing pursuit of the ultimate truth about the universe.’

Source: Contemporary Review

Review of the hardback:'…monumental study…'

Source: Journal of BJHS

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