Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe
An Intellectual Biography

This book is a magisterial overview of Henry Sidgwick, one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain.

Bart Schultz (Author)

9781107407343, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 September 2012

882 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 5 cm, 1.27 kg

Review of the hardback: '…monumental study…' Journal of BJHS

Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics, education and literature. He was deeply involved in the founding of the first college for women at the University of Cambridge. He was also much concerned with the sexual politics of his close friend John Addington Symonds, a pioneer of gay studies. Through his famous student, G. E. Moore, a direct line can be traced from Sidgwick and his circle to the Bloomsbury group. Bart Schultz has written a magisterial overview of this great Victorian sage. This biography will be eagerly sought out by readers interested in philosophy, Victorian literary studies, the history of ideas, the history of psychology and gender and gay studies.

1. Overture
2. First words
3. Unity
4. Consensus versus chaos
5. Spirits
6. Friends versus friends
7. Colors
8. Last words?

Subject Areas: Gay & Lesbian studies [JFSK], Social & political philosophy [HPS], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Biography: general [BG]