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Breaking News The Nation The World ... Politics The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the Twenty-First Century December 30, 2006 The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the Twenty-First Century By A.C. Grayling ALL windswept iron hair, square jaw and compellingly myopic cold blue eyes, A.C.Grayling, professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, and author of various beautifully received works such as The Refutation of Scepticism, Moral Values, An Introduction to Philosophical Logic and Wittgenstein, is both knowing and gorgeous in the dustcover portrait for The Form of Things, something like Michael Douglas as Professor Grady Tripp in Wonder Boys, or Jeff Bridges in his low-fat tennis-playing prime, bespectacled and evaluative and very literally high-browed, with the suggestion of a predatory leonine sexuality in his smile. His expression tolerant, privately complicated warns of an inexorable intellect, superficially softened or disguised by the eloquence of his prose. | |
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