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Magee's writing always makes very easy reading. --Anthony Kenny, Standpoint [Magee] writes with relaxed fluency. --Rowan Williams, New Statesman [Bryan Magee] writes with grace and offers a thoughtful summation of human experience. --Library Journal Living and dying in a world we accept we do not understand may not sound easy, but if Magee is any guide, the reward of doing so is endless and profound wonder. --Julian Baggini, The Independent

Magee's writing always makes very easy reading. --Anthony Kenny, Standpoint [Magee] writes with relaxed fluency. --Rowan Williams, New Statesman

Magee's writing always makes very easy reading. --Anthony Kenny, Standpoint [Magee] writes with relaxed fluency. --Rowan Williams, New Statesman [Bryan Magee] writes with grace and offers a thoughtful summation of human experience. --Library Journal Living and dying in a world we accept we do not understand may not sound easy, but if Magee is any guide, the reward of doing so is endless and profound wonder. --Julian Baggini, The Independent Magee is refreshingly comfortable acknowledging the uncanniness of human experience, including the aesthetic as well as the ethical... His case for acknowledging the extent of what we do not know is a useful corrective to 'jolly hockey sticks' humanism as well as religious dogma. --Dolan Cummings, Spiked [Ultimate Questions] is ... a deeply personal and elegant summary of [Magee's] own individual journey to and through profound philosophical questions. --Choice

Magee's writing always makes very easy reading. --Anthony Kenny, Standpoint

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Bryan Magee has had an unusually multifaceted career as a professor of philosophy, music and theater critic, BBC broadcaster, and member of Parliament. His books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include The Story of Philosophy. He lives in Oxford, England.

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