Topic: Bernard Williams

Reality

The Encyclopedia Britannica - 923 days ago
Aspects of the topic reality are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Since nonfictional prose does not stress inventiveness of themes and of characters independent of the author's self, it appears in the eyes of some moderns to be inferior ...

Keeping cool over Wagner

Spectator, The London - 1198 days ago
ON OPERA by Bernard Williams Yale, Opera has fallen out of fashion as a recreation of our humanist intellectuals. This slim volume of Williams' essays, lectures and programme notes has been edited by his widow Patricia and furnished with a judicious introduction ...