Raimond Gaita
Justice and Hope: Essays, lectures and other writings by Raimond Gaita
Raimond Gaita was born in Germany in 1946. He is Emeritus Professor of moral philosop ...
In a critical moment of reflection and pause, Romulus, My Father offers the reader a key to its interpretation. The author – philosopher Raimond Gaita – tells us that ‘Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are clinging in recollection to things they once saw’. This reference to the Greek philosopher’s work < ...
A Sense for Humanity: The ethical thought of Raimond Gaita edited by Craig Taylor with Melinda Graeffe
Singing for All He’s Worth: Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg by Alex Skovron, Raimond Gaita, and Alex Miller
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh & Gaza edited by Raimond Gaita
When Raimond Gaita’s memoir Romulus, My Father was published in 1998, the acclaim with which it was greeted was ubiquitous. The book was significant not simply because it was a strikingly revealing personal narrative written by a renowned philosopher, but because it managed to present a story that contained large doses of personal tragedy without rendering the experience of reading it either falsely uplifting or overwhelmingly depressing. While offering vivid portraits of an inconstant, depressive wife and mother, and a self-possessed husband and father struggling with his own sense of self-worth, Romulus, My Father celebrated the power of love and friendship in the most subtle, telling and deeply humane ways.
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