Witty, perceptive, intellectually incisive and at times surprising portraits of some of the leading religious, political and intellectual figures of our time
Sir Anthony Kenny FBA was born in Liverpool in 1931, and was educated at Upholland College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 1963 to 1989 he was at Balliol College, Oxford, first as fellow and tutor in philosophy, and then as master. He later became warden of Rhodes House, president of the British Academy and of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and chair of the board of the British Library. In 2006 Kenny was awarded the American Catholic Philosophical Association's Aquinas Medal for his significant contributions to philosophy.
Brilliantly entertaining.
*Melvyn Bragg*
As a painter of biographical portraits Anthony Kenny excels as a
brilliant miniaturist. This is a marvellously stimulating way to
approach autobiography. The range of his friendships and
acquaintances is immense.
*Peter Hennessy*
Few academic philosophers have had successful careers in public
life as well as in scholarship. Among those few Sir Anthony Kenny
stands out for the wide range of his intellect and the lively style
with which he addresses both the realm of exalted ideas and the
world of ordinary facts. These vignettes offer an engaging record
of people who have mattered, from a writer who has always wondered
whether he really belongs to our public culture, even though
sitting at the top of it.
*Roger Scruton*
Kenny's style is unpretentious, effective, and at times wonderfully
informal and amiable.
*Review of Metaphysics*
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