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Twopence coloured.(Philosophers' Hobbies and Other Essays)(Book Review)
Philosophers 'Hobbies and Other Essays, by Jenny Teichman, illustrated by Michael Jorgensen; Black Jack Press, 2003, $22.
SHE'S A ONE-OFF, this Jenny Teichman. One minute she's discussing Aristotle's doctrine of the soul. The next, she's on about noisy stereos. Or the cruelty of solitary confinement in prisons. Or Hayek's distrust of Big Business. In between she disposes of Baroness Warnock's case for bottle babies or Peter Singer's defence of killing babies. The Germans have a word for her. It is Selbstdenker.
She's not predictable. She belongs to no school. The Melbourne Wittgensteinians may have initiated her into the philosophic mysteries when she ...
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