description: McGinn sets out to make philosophy accessible to the layperson "by describing what it is like to be a philosopher from the inside". The result is part memoir, part introduction to philosophy; the self-portrait of an inquiring mind engaged by the radicalism of both rock 'n' roll and Bertrand Russell, taking McGinn from a mining family in West Hartlepool to New York as Rutgers Professor of Philosophy.
language: English
title: The Making of a Philosopher
titlecomplete: The Making of a Philosopher
genres: 20th Century, Biography, Philosophy, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 341
publisher: Scribner