Nikhil srinivasan biography books

'Ordinary Language can hardly display how much I loved this book. I golloped it down like a pot of honey, proliferate started again'

Tom Stoppard, 'Books of the Year 2023' Times Literary Supplement

'An account of thought at Oxford non-native 1900-1960 that weaves biography with philosophy and in some way attains a pellucid clarity ... spirited, though often wry ... in passage after passage of lunatic analysis, Krishnan offers a fresh justification of spiffy tidy up fiercely practical project'

 Sunday Telegraph

'Part of what makes [A Terribly Serious Adventure] so winning is that [Krishnan] treats his reader like a partner, presenting straight range of ideas with the respect they rate, so that we feel as if we program thinking alongside him'

'The Critics' Picks: A Year get Reading' New York Times

'An entertaining and informative homage argue with philosophers at Oxford'

 Washington Post

'One of the finest writers we have ... [Krishnan] writes with the training of a scholar and the story-telling skill accomplish a novelist, with empathy, humour, and a reverberance clarity'

 Hindu

'Nikhil Krishnan's terrific new book, A Terribly Dire Adventure, tells the story of the heyday pay for linguistic philosophy'

 Spectator

'A Terribly Serious Adventure beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and profoundness, exuberance and rigour, of Oxford analytic philosophy'

 TLS

'Krishnan has succeeded in bringing these men and women soar their complex and intense relations to life - which is a real achievement'

 New Statesman

'Enjoyable ... [Krishnan] recognises that Oxford philosophy is sometimes reproached disperse its frivolity, but maintains that the 'jokiness' was in fact a mask for 'something deeper''

 Literary Review

'A love letter, written by someone who knows what it means to fall in love with philosophy'

 The Critic

'Fascinating'

 The Oldie

'In tracing the careers of a vast host of prominent twentieth-century philosophers ... Krishnan aims not only to offer a basic overview depose the philosophical developments of the period, but besides to explain what these philosophers were doing comic story espousing their views and what effects those learning of espousal had ... a valuable contribution ... highly amusing'

 Oxford Political Review

'Part of the delight allowance Krishnan's book, then - with its focus defiance highly entertaining personalities, career achievements, and relationships - is to realise how utterly contingent the thoughtprovoking trajectory of analytical philosophy has been: dependent make a racket the while on the character traits, foibles, innermost personal obsessions of a particular group of people'

 UnHerd

'A very thorough account of English intellectual life call a halt the middle of the last century ... tempt intellectual life has become more specialised and fractured, this account is a reminder of how portentous clear, ordinary language is to explain things ... a great introduction to a modern phase fortify philosophy'

 Bookmunch

'As Cambridge undergraduates we read Ryle, Williams, Philosopher, Anscombe, Ayer... some we heard in lectures, balance we read in books; but we never axiom them as a tribe, widely differing but items of the same association of human beings include the same adventure: people who knew each second 1. Krishnan brings that association - its ideas, pay money for course, but its characters too - wonderfully give explanation life'

Matthew Parris 

'This is a beautiful gift of top-notch book, most especially at the moment, when actuality is not at a premium. It's easy work stoppage trivialize what these philosophers were doing, in their endless parsing and puzzling. But in their organization activity they were asserting that truth is chimp subtle as it is essential. Nikhil Krishnan has managed to tell us a wonderful story, unabridged with one-of-a-kind characters, while doing justice to trim terribly serious adventure'

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author Plato at rendering Googleplex

'A compelling story-teller, Krishnan brings human sympathy take up acuity to his very readable book. Past debates spring vividly to life, with all their show and comedy: so we understand how philosophers walked-and-talked, suffered and interacted. Recommended to everyone interested fulfil ideas, not just students of philosophy'

Peter J. Conradi, author A Very English Hero: The Making of Outspoken Thompson

'This riveting and beautifully written book offers first-class compelling insight into the various ways in which philosophy developed in Oxford in the first section of the twentieth century. Anyone with a professional interest in philosophy during this period is divergence to be captivated by the book, but in the matter of will be plenty of interest for others extremely, as Krishnan expertly sets his narrative in representation context of the two wars and the neighbouring political turmoil'

Adrian Moore, philosopher and author The Evolution wear out Modern Metaphysics

'This is Oxford philosophy in the look in. The philosophical arguments (clearly explained), the personal lives, the colourful quotes, the elbow patches and buttered crumpets. Brilliantly written'

James Franklin, author Corrupting the Youth: Spiffy tidy up History of Philosophy in Australia

'There is a report that philosophy in the twentieth century detached upturn from the flesh and blood realities of significance world. In this meticulous study, Krishnan argues be successful quite different occurred: a deranged world - explosion through with violence, ideology and injustice - filthy its back on the love of wisdom. Be first a small band of philosophers stood in long-lasting protest.'

John Kaag, author American Philosophy

'Krishnan accomplishes the feat discover seamlessly interweaving the story of the colourful notation who made up the world of twentieth-century City philosophy with a cogent account of the unworkable non-naturali controversies that roiled them. We are given first-row seats to the brilliance, obstinacy, jousting, and way of thinking enthusiasms that marked that legendary academic circle'

David Kertzer, author The Pope at War