Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life in and out of school

in and out of school

and has a way of making a billion sound kinda small

witness the strength and resilience of Atalanta

More than a bold reassessment of modern norms

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life in and out of schoolA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE NEW YORKER A vibrant portrait of four college friends Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman