Making of a Philosopher

<p><strong> Part memoir part study <em>The Making of a Philosopher</em> is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic.</strong></p><p> <em>The Making of a Philosopher</em> follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm to his years in the states first in Los Angeles then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century including Bertrand Russell Jean-Paul Sartre and Noam Chomsky alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. </p><p> McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page.</p><p> </p>