Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography Book

Henry Sidgwick, one of the great intellectual figures of 19th century Britain, was foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics, education and literature. Sidgwick was deeply involved in the founding of the first college for women at the University of Cambridge and was also a pioneer of gay studies. A direct line can be traced from Sidgwick and his circle to the Bloomsbury group through his most famous student, G.E. Moore. Bart Schultz has written a magisterial overview of the great Victorian sage that will be eagerly sought out by readers interested in philosophy, Victorian literary studies, the history of ideas, the history of psychology and gender and gay studies. Bart Schultz is the editor of Essays on Henry Sedgwick (Cambridge, 1992) and a regular contributor to such journals as Utilitas, Ethics and Philosophy of the Social Sciences.