Bernard Harrison

Bernard Harrison is currently Emeritus E.E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy in the University of Utah and Emeritus Professor of the University of Sussex. He is one of a number of analytic philosophers, more numerous now than formerly, whose interests include literature and its relationships with philosophy and the history of ideas. His literary work includes Fielding's Tom Jones: The Novelist as Moral Philosopher (Chatto, 1975), and Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory (Yale University Press, 1991), and numerous papers. His more strictly philosophical work has ranged between philosophy of language, ethics, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language. His most book co-authored with his Utah colleague Patricia Hanna Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language (Cambridge University Press, 2004) offers a systematic rethinking, with implications, among other things, for literary studies, of the philosophy of language as it has developed since Russell and Frege, on the basis of a new reading of Wittgenstein. His most recent book is The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel and Liberal Opinion (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006).(from http://partialanswers.huji.ac.il/auth...)