METAPHYSICAL ANIMALS: HOW FOUR WOMEN BROUGHT PHILOSOPHY BACK TO LIFE(OLD TITLE: THE QUARTET)
Book ID/图书代码： 11701219C00004
English Summary/英文概要： A delightful group portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition starting with the ideas, fears, and hopes of women while Oxford’s men were away at war
The history of European philosophy is usually formed from the ideas, visions and hopes of men, many of whom lived monastic lives apart from women and children. In the mid-twentieth century, as students at Oxford, Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch launched an alternative.
In the 1930’s, while the men of their class went to war, these four women dared to question the abstraction of the modern male philosophical tradition, returning instead to questions of virtue and human nature. They did their philosophical work among diapers and babies, in living rooms and teashops, and in a landscape of bombed out buildings, emergency hospitals, and displaced people. Each woman concluded that human life is not a pursuit for an isolated individual, but for a group.
Metaphysical Animals is a retelling of modern philosophy that places four women at the center. It is a story of love and war and friendship that offers a new answer to the fundamental question: what do we live for?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 书中生动地描绘了四个大学好友——艾丽丝•默多克、菲利帕•福特、伊里莎白•安斯康姆和玛丽•米奇利——他们在牛津大学的人奔赴战场时形成了一种新的哲学传统。欧洲哲学史通常是由男人们著书立说而成。在这本开创性的先锋团体传记中，两位作者克莱尔麦克坎黑尔(Clare Mac Cumhaill)和瑞秋怀斯曼(Rachael Wiseman)提供了一个令人信服的结果。在20世纪中期，伊里莎白•安斯康姆、玛丽•米奇利、菲利帕•福特和艾丽丝•默多克是牛津大学的哲学系的学生，当时大多数男性本科生和许多导师在都被征召参加二战。这几位女性朋友一起，研发出了一种可以应对战争中最为黑暗的启示的哲学。
无论是过去最伟大的启蒙运动思想家，20世纪早期的逻辑创新者，还是横跨英吉利海峡的新存在主义哲学，都无法理解人类这种无限堕落和破坏力的新现实，而这四位女子却感知到了。她们的答案给哲学带来了生机。她们意识到，我们都是形而上学的动物，是可以质疑自身存在的生物。我是谁? 什么是自由? 什么是人性本善? 她们相信，我们给出的答案将会塑造我们的未来。
《形而上的动物》以专业知识和资质书写，生动地描绘了志同道合的四位女性哲学家，各抒己见，互相分享想法，话题还涉及寓所，衣服甚至是爱人。克莱尔麦克坎黑尔(Clare Mac Cumhaill)和瑞秋怀斯曼(Rachael Wiseman)展示了如何摆脱战争的混乱和绝望，这四位杰出的女性创造出了一种适应于当下我们的伦理思维方式。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 克莱尔麦克卡海尔(Clare Mac Cumhaill)和蕾切尔 怀斯曼(Rachael Wiseman)两个哲学教授发表的关于思维女性哲学家，(英国二十世纪最著名的小说家之一, 同时也是位货真价实的哲学家,被誉为 “全英国最聪明的女人”， 艾丽丝•默多克Iris Murdoch，最早提出‘电车难题’的菲利帕•福特，英国纽卡斯尔大学高级哲学讲师玛丽•米奇利Mary Midgley，和伊里莎白•安斯康姆Elizabeth Anscombe)的著作《四重奏》(The Quartet)将于2021年由Chatto & Windus出版。两位女性作家的合作方式与70年前的这著名的四位女哲学家可谓如出一辙。克莱尔麦克卡海尔在爱丁堡大学获得哲学博士学位之前，曾就读于都柏林三一学院和伦敦东方非洲研究学院。她是英国杜伦大学哲学系助理教授。
蕾切尔 怀斯曼(Rachael Wiseman)曾就读于伦敦大学学院，后在约克大学攻读硕士学位和哲学博士学位。她是利物浦大学哲学系讲师。CLARE MAC CUMHAILL (pronounced McCool) is a lecturer in philosophy at Durham University and RACHAEL WISEMAN is a lecturer in philosophy at University of Liverpool. They are co-directors of the In Parenthesis project, devoted to this all-female philosophical school, launched in 2015 (www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk).
Format:HARDCOVER
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：The sales so far are as follows: UK: Chatto & Windus, ed. Clara Farmer (pub February 2022); UK: Doubleday, ed. Kris Puopolo; France: Flammarion; Germany: Beck; Israel: Books in the Attic; Italy: Mondadori; Netherlands: Ambo Anthos; Spain: Anagrama; Sweden: Natur och Kultur.
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