Preface
Part I: Family and Childhood
1. Family
2. Childhood
3. Family Life
Bibliography
Part II: Growing Up
4.School
5. Being an American
6. Cambridge
7. Oxford
Bibliography
Part 3: Work and Adult Life
8. The University of Kent
9. Radical Philosophy
10. Working at Kent
11. Living and Working Abroad
12. Writing and Thought
Bibliography
Part 4: Later Life
13. Retirement
14. China Again
15. Family History
Bibliography
Appendix: Analytical and Continental Philosophy
Biography
Sean Sayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent and Visiting Professor at Peking University. He was educated at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and has taught in Colorado, Sydney, Istanbul, Massachusetts, Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai. He has been a central figure in the development of Marxist philosophy in the English-speaking world. He has an international reputation for his work on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy, which has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Turkish. His books include Marx and Alienation (2009), Plato’s Republic: An Introduction (1999), Marxism and Human Nature (1998), Reality and Reason (1985), and Hegel, Marx and Dialectic: A Debate (1980). He was one of the founders of Radical Philosophy (1972), and he created the online Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (2009).
A fascinating read. Sayers has had such a many-sided career, and his finely written (and photographed) account contains many striking philosophical and political insights. The result is a splendid amalgam of the personal and the academic.
David McLellan, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Sayers has succeeded in producing a wonderful memoir which does that rare thing; it successfully blends the individual moment with the larger historical backdrop, the personal and the political, in a delicate and readable narrative which offers an important glimpse into philosophy and history, and the spirit of its times.
Tony McKenna, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
