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Bound in Shallows - Autobiographical Reminiscences (Paperback)
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Bound in Shallows - Autobiographical Reminiscences (Paperback)
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Errol Harris was a greatly respected and influential philosopher
and public intellectual in North America, Britain and Europe in the
20th century. His autobiography provides insight into the
influences that contributed to the shaping of his remarkable
character and career. In these recollections Harris reveals a keen
eye as he presents memories of growing up in several parts of South
Africa in the early 20th century; childhood and youth in a
close-knit but sometimes financially challenged Jewish family of
fairly strict religious observance; an account of inspiring
intellectual experiences as an undergraduate and graduate at Rhodes
College, Grahamstown (1925-29); teaching black South African
university undergraduates at Fort Hare in 1929-30; studying
philosophy at Oxford (1931-33) with many of the most celebrated
figures on the Oxford faculty from that period; teaching at British
public schools in the mid-1930's; a short, unhappy, but
adventure-filled stint as secretary to the Minister of Mines for
Southern Rhodesia; tales of his experiences as an Education Officer
for the British Colonial Service, inspecting remote village schools
on horseback in Basutoland and Zanzibar in the late 1930's, just
prior to the outbreak of the war. He also recounts the religious
experiences over these years that eventually led him to join the
Church of England. Over the course of his long life, Errol
demonstrated a serious concern for the common weal, along with a
strongly-developed social conscience. Confronted with a range of
historic challenges, including some of the most acute evils arising
in the course of the twentieth century, he met the most serious of
them head-on with a direct, resolute, and public response, calling
upon all to embark on a path of sanity and reason toward a goal of
mutual well-being. The book also covers his research and his
writing of his fully realized and comprehensive philosophical
system on the concept of mind, or consciousness, and its relation
to the world. Excerpted from the Introduction.
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