Published by Grove Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0802116736 ISBN 13: 9780802116734
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition; First Printing. 0 pages; Foxing to the exterior edge of pages only. Sharpie mark to exterior edge of pages. Otherwise in great condition. No writing or noteworthy blemishes. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
Published by Penguin Classics, 2001
ISBN 10: 0141186046 ISBN 13: 9780141186047
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 7.64x5.04x0.63 inches. In Stock.
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 070116316X ISBN 13: 9780701163167
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
HARDCOVER. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). 1st Edition. Heavy, large Octavo size (8vo). in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 402pp, plates, index etc. Signed by Ben Rogers on the title-page (no other inscriptions) CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy (pages slightly tanned) in an almost AS NEW un-clipped Dust Jacket (faintly edge-creased, looks almost as new in its removable transparent protector) ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
Published by London, Chatto & Windus., 1999
ISBN 10: 070116316X ISBN 13: 9780701163167
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Illus. With Photos (illustrator). 16 cm x 24 cm. XII, 402 pages including photographs. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two photocopies from a newspaper review pasted on back endpapers. Clean inside with solid binding. Includes for example the following chapters: Teachers, Bankers, Merchants, Wives / School-days / Apprentice / Student / Marriage among the Scientists / Language, Truth and Logic, or the Philosophy of Nonsense / The Meaning of Life / Oxford, New York, Toulon / Benthamite Saint / Retirement etc. "Freddie Ayer (1910-89) was one of the most influential philosophers of his generation, while his television and radio appearances, especially in the original `Brains Trust', made him Britain's first 'media philosopher'. In this lively, penetrating study - the first, fully authorised, biography - Ben Rogers relates Ayer's ideas to his remarkable life, strangely troubled beneath its glamorous surface. The 'quintessentially British' thinker was the only child of a Swiss-French father and Dutch-Jewish mother; after a lonely childhood he found his true role at Oxford. A friend of Isaiah Berlin, and a follower first of Bertrand Russell, and then of Wittgenstein. Ayer won fame at twenty-four with his brilliantly iconoclastic LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC - an essential text for students ever since. Ben Rogers shows Ayer at work, in London, Oxford and America, and also at play, as a passionate follower of cricket and football, a great dancer, a lover of witty conversation and beautiful women. Married four times, Ayer was a leading figure in London 'cafe society', yet he was also a controversial public figure and broadcaster, vehemently left-wing in the 1930s, and later President of the British Humanist Association and the Homosexual Law Reform Society. Colourful, inimate, zestful and often poignant, this is a powerful biography." (Amazon) Sprache: english.