Author: Gillian Rose; Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590174119 Category: Biography & Autobiography Page: 176 View: 9371 DOWNLOAD NOW » Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy. US$16.21
The author's character is captivating, her humanity wickedly observant, funny, embracing. US$9.28
Anyone who has struggled through the turgid prose of A.J.Ayer, Don Cupitt or the convoluted syntax of Iris Murdoch will recognise what I mean.
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Sometimes her intelligent writing escapes my ready comprehension and I have to slow down my pace and study some passages for bit, but this just makes the reading that much more rewarding. Some entertaining, if at times harrowing, autobiographical snippets. Buy [(Love's Work)] [By (author) Gillian Rose] published on (March, 1997) by Gillian Rose (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. She died in December 1995.
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It is good to find that philosophizing can offer its age-old consolations so present tensely." LOVE'S WORK is as vivid and carefully structured as a novel, circling like memory from the small fierce girl torn between a demanding father and genial, feckless stepfather to the adolescent confronting her Jewish inheritance, from the passionate friend to the searcher for truth, from the sensual woman in love to the patient in the hospital bed. How is that going to inspire or improve my understanding? She was Professor at the University of Warwick where she worked in modern European philosophy, social and political thought, and theology. US$11.74 US$14.93 128 US$12.49 Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and endurance of love, love that becomes real and endures through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
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On discovering that she had cancer and only months to live, philosopher and academic Gillian Rose wrote this memoir as an exploration of who she was. "Rich and Passionate Memoir by Gilliam Rose, but hard for the common reader
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But Gillian also had cancer, and the news that she only had months to live made her determined to explore who she was, and what she had been seeking so long. | Love's Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy. Gillian Rose (1947-1995), who is now recognized as one of the most important and influential critical thinkers of her time, was a British philosopher and writer. May 31, 2011 | ISBN 9781590173657 US$12.42 Please enter manually:","bd_js_keep_typing_to_refine_search_results":"Keep typing to refine the search results","bd_js_top_categories":"Top Categories","bd_price_save":"Save {0}","bd_js_name_only_letters":"Sorry, full name can only contain letters","bd_js_show_more":"show more","bd_js_enter_valid_email_address":"Please enter a valid email address","bd_js_enter_address_manually":"Enter address manually","bd_js_more_categories":"More Categories","bd_js_continue_shopping":"Continue Shopping","bd_js_account_and_help":"Account & Help","bd_js_basket_checkout":"Basket / Checkout","bd_add_to_basket":"Add to basket","bd_js_enter_first_last_name":"Please enter a first and last name","bd_js_please_enter_your":"Please enter your"} US$16.03
3 Gillian Rose, Love‘s Work, Chatto and Windus, London 1995, isbn 0-7011-6304-6, £9.99. The book deals with faith, conflict, love and death as it covers the different stages of her life.
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It's written by a dying woman philosopher, and I thought it would be inspiring and moving, but it was neither.