J. L. Austin : Philosopher and D-Day intelligence officer / [electronic resource]
by M. W. Rowe.
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- e-book contains 660 pages :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [623]-645) and index.
Contents Front Matter Copyright Page Dedication List of Figures ExpandBibliographic Abbreviations Military Names and Abbreviations Notes on the Text Epigraph Introduction View chapter Part I Pre-War M. W. Rowe View part front matter Expand1 Origins: c.1670–1911 View chapter Expand2 Childhood: 1911–1924 View chapter Expand3 Shrewsbury: 1924–1929 View chapter Expand4 Balliol: 1929–1933 View chapter Expand5 Philosophy in Oxford: 1918–1933 View chapter Expand6 All Souls: 1933–1935 View chapter Expand7 Collingwood, C. I. Lewis, and Aristotle: 1935–1938 View chapter Expand8 The All Souls Group, Politics, and Wittgenstein: 1937–1940 View chapter Part II War M. W. Rowe View part front matter Expand9 Jean and the Army: September 1939–December 1940 View chapter Expand10 MI14, Marriage, and North African Intelligence: December 1940–April 1941 View chapter Expand11 Injury, Scotland, and the Desert War: April 1941–March 1942 View chapter Expand12 The Coming of the Martians: March–July 1942 View chapter Expand13 Norfolk House, Dieppe, and Torch: June–November 1942 View chapter Expand14 Skyscraper, Invade Mecum, and Exile: November 1942–July 1943 View chapter Expand15 The Hunt for the V-Weapons: April 1943–February 1944 View chapter Expand16 At Peter Robinson’s: November 1943–January 1944 View chapter Expand17 Towards D-Day: December 1943–June 1944 View chapter Expand18 D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: May–September 1944 View chapter Expand19 Arnhem and the Ardennes: September 1944–January 1945 View chapter Expand20 War’s End: February–November 1945 View chapter Part III Post-War M. W. Rowe View part front matter Expand21 The Post-War Scene: 1945–1955 View chapter Expand22 ‘Other Minds’ and Ordinary Language: 1946–1948 View chapter Expand23 Ordinary Language Philosophy: 1947–1959 View chapter Expand24 The Oral and the Written: 1947–1959 View chapter Expand25 Sense and Sensibilia: 1947–1959 View chapter Expand26 Truth and Logic: 1950–1952 View chapter Expand27 White’s Professor: 1952–1954 View chapter Expand28 Domestic Life and the Americans: 1952–1954 View chapter Expand29 Harvard and Speech-Acts: 1955 View chapter Expand30 Abilities and Excuses: 1956–1957I View chapter Expand31 Royaumont and Anscombe: 1958 View chapter Expand32 California, Semantics, and Sound Symbolism: 1958–1959 View chapter Expand33 Ayer, Scandinavia, and the Gellner Controversy: 1959 View chapter Expand34 Final Illness: 1959–1960 View chapter End Matter ExpandAcknowledgements Bibliography Index
Abstract This is the first full-length biography of John Langshaw Austin (1911–60). The opening four chapters outline his origins, childhood, schooling, and time as an undergraduate, while the next four examine his early career in professional philosophy, looking at the influence of Oxford Realism, Logical Positivism, Pragmatism, and the later Wittgenstein. The central twelve chapters then explore Austin’s wartime career in British Intelligence. The first three examine the contributions he made to the campaigns in North Africa; the next seven the seminal role he played in ensuring the outstanding accuracy of the D-Day Intelligence; while the final two explore his contributions to Arnhem, the Ardennes, and the post-war administration of Germany. The last main section of the book then outlines and assesses Austin’s contributions to post-war Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy. The first three chapters discuss the impact on Oxford philosophy of the cultural atmosphere of post-war Britain and the later Wittgenstein’s ideas. The next four look at Austin’s influence on post-war Oxford, particularly his Saturday morning discussion group and his perception lectures. The next five chapters concentrate on America’s influence on Austin and vice versa, paying particular attention to Austin’s work on speech-acts and his semesters in Harvard and Berkeley. The final two chapters examine Austin’s declining influence in Oxford, and his tragically premature death.