{"product_id":"essays-and-reviews-1959-2002-9780691168609","title":"Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collection of popular reviews and essays from distinguished philosopher Bernard Williams\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews. Williams writes about a broad range of subjects, from philosophy to science, the humanities, economics, feminism, and pornography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded are reviews of major books such as John Rawls's \u003ci\u003eTheory of Justice, Richard Rorty's Consequences of Pragmatism, \u003c\/i\u003e and Martha Nussbaum's \u003ci\u003eTherapy of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e. But many of these essays extend beyond philosophy, providing an intellectual tour through the past half century, from C. S. Lewis to Noam Chomsky. No matter the subject, readers see a first-class mind grappling with landmark books in \"real time,\" before critical consensus had formed and ossified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Williams\u003c\/b\u003e held Chairs of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, Berkeley, and Oxford. He died in 2003.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327229989138,"sku":"9780691168609","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c4b3d60e-8455-4911-9405-b86be6771f33.jpg?v=1727711558","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/essays-and-reviews-1959-2002-9780691168609","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}