John Henry Muirhead (Routledge Revivals): Reflections

by John Harvey

Overview

First published in 1942, Reflections documents the life of John Henry Muirhead and the philosophical age that he observed. The first part of the volume derives from Muirhead’s own autobiographical narrative, left unfinished when he died in May 1940. The second part features two final chapters written by John W. Harvey that comprehensively record the final stages of Muirhead’s life. Harvey’s chapters incorporate Muirhead’s unfinished final years of commentary and begin at the man’s retirement from Birmingham Chair in 1921.

As a student and teacher of philosophy, Muirhead’s life ran almost precisely parallel to what he himself refers to as ‘one of the most vivid and important movements in British and American philosophy’. He came into contact with some of the age’s primary thinkers and as such, his own autobiography is important in providing an insight into his contemporary philosophical environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415627160
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/17/2013
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prolific British mystery writer John Harvey (b. 1938) is the author of more than 100 books, as well as poetry and television screenplays. Harvey debuted his best-known character, Charlie Resnick, in 1989’s Lonely Hearts, which the London Times called one of the "100 Best Crime Novels of the Century." The series came to an end in 2014 with Darkness, Darkness. Harvey lives in London.

Table of Contents

1. Editor’s Foreword 2. Foreword 3. From Cradle to College 4. Glasgow University in the Seventies 5. Balliol in the Seventies 6. With Apprentices in Glasgow 7. Unitarianism 8. Ethical Culture 9. Apprentices All 10. Birmingham University 11. Not Walls but Men 12. The Call of the City 13. Visitors: From Near and Far 14. The New Liberalism and the Universities 15. In War Time 16. In Retirement 17. John Henry Muirhead 18. Bibliography of the Writings of John Henry Muirhead, 1855-1940 19. Index