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Mayfield's best friend, a somewhat overromanticized womanizer named Strawson, confesses that if Mayfield had but said the word 40 years before, "I'd have spent my whole life bearing your weight." Mayfield doubts that living together could have worked, with "the rest of our lives to kill while the world snickered at us at the grocery store: two old sissies, harmless as house dust." Nothing is resolved between the two except yearning...
...observe this steady, fearless staredown of loneliness for three novels is exhausting, though by no means tiresome. What relieves the strain is unfailing grace of language, as when Mayfield and Strawson drive the New Jersey Turnpike "through an outrage of traffic like the silent forced evacuation of Hell." Grace and seriousness are enough. Price's dour trilogy is rich, not bleak, a satisfying accomplishment by a fine artist...
Some analytic philosophers are even daring to "do metaphysics" again. P. F. Strawson, one of the most respected of Oxford's analytic philosophers, boldly subtitled his latest book, Individuals, An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. The book is partly concerned with the difference between material objects and human beings, a highly technical question that, by extension, has to do with the very real problem of whether man can be explained like a flesh-and-blood object of whether he is an organism with a purpose. Another, younger Oxonian, Anthony Quinton, is completing a philosophical treatise, grandly titled The Nature...
...analytic thinkers believed that with the clarifying of language the old questions of philosophy would simply disappear, but their intellectual offsprings are wiser. "Once you see that language permeates the world," says Morris Kaplan, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale, "all the problems you had with the world come back." Strawson agrees that "the insatiable appetite of philosphers for generality has reasserted itself." In,other words, the philosophers are beginning to re-invent philosophy...
Stanley M. Strawson '47, director of the drive, stated that "we had about 40 bona fide cancellations dut to colds and other sickness, and 38 rejected after coming in to give...