Description: A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century.
Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Germs : a Memoir of Childhood
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Philosophers, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Personal Memoirs, General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 12.1 Oz
Author: Richard Wollheim
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
