The Central Questions
Thomas Nagel: H.L.A. Hart, 3 February 2005
A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream
by Nicola Lacey.
Oxford, 422 pp., £25, September 2004,0 19 927497 5 Show More
by Nicola Lacey.
Oxford, 422 pp., £25, September 2004,
“... invaluable. In the course of their marriage she had serious love affairs with other men, including Michael Oakeshott and Isaiah Berlin. She was attracted by brains, and that is what drew her to Hart. His attraction to her seems very natural: her outrageousness and lack of inhibition must have made him feel alive. She despised ... ”