Germs: A Memoir of Childhood

by Richard Wollheim

Book Overview

A brilliant, meandering 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 the life of Richard Wollheim, a major British philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century, this memoir is not the usual story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168137496X
• ISBN13: 9781681374963
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"