Of Men and Manners

<p>This is a collection of writings by the late Lord Quinton one of the wittiest and most versatile philosophers of his generation. The first part ranges over the last four hundred years of intellectual history discussing such thinkers as Francis Bacon Spinoza Coleridge Kant Hegel T. H. Green Dewey Quine and Ayer. The subject of the second part of the volume is broadly speaking value in human society: Quinton discusses freedom morality politics language culture and the relation between humans and animals. Together these writings demonstrate the enormous breadth of their author's learning and the clarity elegance and urbanity of his style. Seven of the pieces are previously unpublished.</p>