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Nikhil Krishnan is a Fellow in Philosophy at Robinson College, Cambridge. He completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, New Statesman, Daily Telegraph and Literary Review.
'Ordinary Language can hardly convey how much I loved this book. I golloped it down like a pot of honey, then started again' - Keith Miller, 'Books of the Year 2023' 'An account of thought at Oxford from 1900-1960 that weaves biography with philosophy and somehow attains a pellucid clarity ... spirited, though frequently wry ... in passage after passage of fierce analysis, Krishnan offers a fresh justification of a fiercely practical project' - Sunday Telegraph 'One of the finest writers we have ... [Krishnan] writes with the discipline of a scholar and the story-telling skill of a novelist, with empathy, humour, and a ringing clarity' - Hindu 'Nikhil Krishnan's terrific new book, A Terribly Serious Adventure, tells the story of the heyday of linguistic philosophy' - Spectator 'A Terribly Serious Adventure beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and profundity, exuberance and rigour, of Oxford analytic philosophy' - TLS
