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MODERN WRITERS
and other Essays
This volume of essays and reviews by the
chairman of the Department of Philosophy
at Princeton is unique - for here the trained
philosopher rather than the literary critic
addresses himself to the problems the writer
faces in revealing the condition of man.
In his stimulating introductory essay, Mr.
Hampshire shows how the personal style of
a writer, whether novelis t, poet or essayist,
often relates intimately, even if uninten–
tionally, to " the high abstractions of philos–
ophy." He then considers, in this light, the
work of writers ranging from Joyce, Wilde,
Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Auden,
to Wittgenstein, William James and
Bertrand Russell.
208
pages.
$5.95
Published by Alfred·A· KnopE
