Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals

269 pp. "...he has conducted two parallel, and equally exhilarating, quests: the first to find out what is going on inside the heads of the present-day British philosophers, and what kind of people, in human terms, they are; the second to do the same thing about the present-day British historians. ...he introduces to us a series of fascinating minds and personalities: Bertrand Russell, Ernest Gellner, Gilbert Ryle, A. J. Ayer, Richard Hare, Stuart Hamsphire, Iris Murdoch, G. J. Warnock, P. F. Strawson, J. L. Austin, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; H. R. Trevor-Roper, A. J. P. Taylor, Arnold Toynbee, Pieter Geyl, E. H. Carr, C. V. Wedgwood, Christopher Hill, John Brooke, Herbert Butterfield, R. H. Tawney, and Lewis Namier."