Bøker av Anthony Kenny

Witty, perceptive, intellectually incisive and at times surprising portraits of some of the leading religious, political and intellectual figures of our time

Concise historical introduction to Immanuel Kant and his continuing influence on the world and how we see it

Arthur Hugh Clough is regarded as an equal partner of a poetic fraternity whose other members were Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. This biography stresses the close links between Clough's life and his poems, and pays particular attention to his love poetry and his associations with the many women who played an important part in his life.

Almost forty years on from its original publication, Kenny's account of action and emotion is still essential reading. One of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action.

In this book, computer-assisted statistical analysis of linguistic usage is used to throw light on questions of disputed authorship in the New Testament, and the author draws some conclusions about the merits and limitations of the stylometric approach to such questions.

In December 2006, dons at Oxford University caused turmoil by rejecting a set of governance reforms that were championed by their own vice-chancellor. This book is a response to these events, addressed in large part to Oxford's funders - government and benefactors - and is useful reading for those with an interest in the future of this university.

Based on the Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion given in Oxford in 1970-72.