1st Edition

Rethinking the Future Correspondence Between Geoffrey Vickers and Adolph Lowe

By P. Jeanne Vickers Copyright 1991
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Rethinking the Future is the story of a relationship between two highly origi­nal thinkers who achieved great dis­tinction in their chosen fields and in their respective countries. After a dis­tinguished career in law, civil admin­istration, and industrial management, Geoffrey Vickers made an exceptional contribution to academic debate with regard to ethics, epistemology, and... Read more
An Introduction to Sir Geoffrey Vickers and Dr. Adolph Lowe; The Correspondents; Going to war; The rise of the Nazis; Law and politics; The Moot; The ambiguity of freedom; World Warn; The post-war world; Formulating the appreciative system; The revolutionary Sixties; The onset of ill-health; Ethics as focal point; Clinging to the web; Mutual appreciation; The end of a partnership; The Letters 1. War and its Aftermath 2. The Fifties 3. The Sixties; The beginning of revolt; Disabilities; Freedom in a Rocking Boat; Emancipation; Deficit financing 4. The Early Seventies 5. The Late Seventies 6. The Eighties Looking back; Epilogue

Biography

P. Jeanne Vickers