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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Raimond GaitaPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Random House Inc Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.10cm Weight: 0.198kg ISBN: 9780812970241ISBN 10: 0812970241 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 12 July 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for The Philospher's Dog: Dog lovers endlessly philosophize about their love for their canine companions. A compelling book on the subject from an actual philosopher with the brainpower, dog love, and writing skill of Raimond Gaita is timely. Gaita understands and explores the notion that animals and our own humanity are inextricably linked. Great fodder for anybody who loves animals and ponders our complex relationships with them. -JON KATZ, author of A Dog Year and The New Work of Dogs In everything that Raimond Gaita writes we sense a generous heart at work, as well as lucid intelligence. The Philosopher's Dog is a book to give to the kind of person who asks what philosophy is for. -J. M. COETZEE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2003 Rai Gaita is a dog lover, a philosopher, and a gifted, sensitive writer. In this immensely readable and enjoyable book, he mixes the personal with the philosophical and the anecdotal with the profound to produce a series of illuminating reflections on what it means to be a creature and, more important, what it means to be fully human. -RAY MONK, author of Bertrand Russell Praise for The Philospher's Dog: <br> Dog lovers endlessly philosophize about their love for their canine companions. A compelling book on the subject from an actual philosopher with the brainpower, dog love, and writing skill of Raimond Gaita is timely. Gaita understands and explores the notion that animals and our own humanity are inextricably linked. Great fodder for anybody who loves animals and ponders our complex relationships with them. <br>-JON KATZ, author of A Dog Year and The New Work of Dogs <br> In everything that Raimond Gaita writes we sense a generous heart at work, as well as lucid intelligence. T he Philosopher's Dog is a book to give to the kind of person who asks what philosophy is for, <br>-J. M. COETZEE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2003 <br> Rai Gaita is a dog lover, a philosopher, and a gifted, sensitive writer. In this immensely readable and enjoyable book, he mixes the personal with the philosophical and the anecdotal with the profound to produce a series of illuminating reflections on what it means to be a creature and, more important, what it means to be fully human. <br>-RAY MONK, author of Bertrand Russell <p> From the Hardcover edition. Praise for The Philospher's Dog: Dog lovers endlessly philosophize about their love for their canine companions. A compelling book on the subject from an actual philosopher with the brainpower, dog love, and writing skill of Raimond Gaita is timely. Gaita understands and explores the notion that animals and our own humanity are inextricably linked. Great fodder for anybody who loves animals and ponders our complex relationships with them. -JON KATZ, author of A Dog Year and The New Work of Dogs In everything that Raimond Gaita writes we sense a generous heart at work, as well as lucid intelligence. The Philosopher's Dog is a book to give to the kind of person who asks what philosophy is for. -J. M. COETZEE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2003 Rai Gaita is a dog lover, a philosopher, and a gifted, sensitive writer. In this immensely readable and enjoyable book, he mixes the personal with the philosophical and the anecdotal with the profound to produce a series of illuminating reflections on what it means to be a creature and, more important, what it means to be fully human. -RAY MONK, author of Bertrand Russell From the Hardcover edition. Praise for The Philospher s Dog: Dog lovers endlessly philosophize about their love for their canine companions. A compelling book on the subject from an actual philosopher with the brainpower, dog love, and writing skill of Raimond Gaita is timely. Gaita understands and explores the notion that animals and our own humanity are inextricably linked. Great fodder for anybody who loves animals and ponders our complex relationships with them. JON KATZ, author of A Dog Year and The New Work of Dogs In everything that Raimond Gaita writes we sense a generous heart at work, as well as lucid intelligence. T he Philosopher s Dog is a book to give to the kind of person who asks what philosophy is for. J. M. COETZEE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2003 Rai Gaita is a dog lover, a philosopher, and a gifted, sensitive writer. In this immensely readable and enjoyable book, he mixes the personal with the philosophical and the anecdotal with the profound to produce a series of illuminating reflections on what it means to be a creature and, more important, what it means to be fully human. RAY MONK, author of Bertrand Russell From the Hardcover edition. Praise for The Philospher's Dog: Dog lovers endlessly philosophize about their love for their canine companions. A compelling book on the subject from an actual philosopher with the brainpower, dog love, and writing skill of Raimond Gaita is timely. Gaita understands and explores the notion that animals and our own humanity are inextricably linked. Great fodder for anybody who loves animals and ponders our complex relationships with them. -JON KATZ, author of A Dog Year and The New Work of Dogs In everything that Raimond Gaita writes we sense a generous heart at work, as well as lucid intelligence. T he Philosopher's Dog is a book to give to the kind of person who asks what philosophy is for . -J. M. COETZEE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2003 Rai Gaita is a dog lover, a philosopher, and a gifted, sensitive writer. In this immensely readable and enjoyable book, he mixes the personal with the philosophical and the anecdotal with the profound to produce a series of illuminating reflections on what it means to be a creature and, more important, what it means to be fully human. -RAY MONK, author of Bertrand Russell From the Hardcover edition. Praise for The Philospher's Dog: Dog lovers endlessly philosophize about their love for their canine companions. A compelling book on the subject from an actual philosopher with the brainpower, dog love, and writing skill of Raimond Gaita is timely. Gaita understands and explores the notion that animals and our own humanity are inextricably linked. Great fodder for anybody who loves animals and ponders our complex relationships with them. -JON KATZ, author of A Dog Year and The New Work of Dogs In everything that Raimond Gaita writes we sense a generous heart at work, as well as lucid intelligence. T he Philosopher's Dog is a book to give to the kind of person who asks what philosophy is for, -J. M. COETZEE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2003 Rai Gaita is a dog lover, a philosopher, and a gifted, sensitive writer. In this immensely readable and enjoyable book, he mixes the personal with the philosophical and the anecdotal with the profound to produce a series of illuminating reflections on what it means to be a creature and, more important, what it means to be fully human. -RAY MONK, author of Bertrand Russell From the Hardcover edition. Author InformationBorn in Germany in 1946, RAIMOND GAITA is professor of moral philosophy at Kings College, University of London, and professor of philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. Among his books published in the United States are A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice and Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception. He lives in London and Melbourne. 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