Originally published: 2004. With new foreword. von Midgley, Mary

In this major work, Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals tells us that humans are rather more like animals than we have previously allowed ourselves to believe. von Midgley, Mary

In this major work, Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals argues that humans are rather more like animals than we have previously allowed ourselves to believe.

Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the remarkable gap that has opened up between our own understanding of our sense of our self and today's scientific orthodoxy that claims the self to be nothing more than an elaborate illusion....

Now in paperback, this is the memoir of one of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers which includes portraits of friends and contemporaries including Iris Murdoch and Wittgenstein. von Midgley, Mary