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Title: On Philosophical Style by Brand Blanshard, F. Michael Walsh ISBN: 1-890318-53-1 Publisher: Saint Augustine's Pr Pub. Date: June, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00

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Summary: Top-notch advice from a master of philosophical prose style
Comment: Brand Blanshard's prose style was itself a seamless implementation of the content of his philosophy: intelligible, clear, precise, and invariably suffused by what he called the "rational temper." In this book (really an extended essay) he offers helpful advice to would-be writers of philosophical prose -- advice that he had more than earned the right to give. This single volume, if its advice were heeded, would have spared us the dark cogitations of many an obfuscatory philosopher and left the field of philosophy in the hands of those who had something to say. Those who are impressed by the bold pronouncements of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein will find little solace here, but anyone who expects philosophers actually to love wisdom will be delighted to encounter a kindred spirit. Read it not only to profit from its advice on prose style but also to absorb something of the spirit of twentieth century philosophy's greatest exemplar of reasonableness.