![]() ![]() ![]() He was a man of his time in tending to prefer coUectivist solutions for social problems and to hanker after a new, improved breed of humanity. Stapledon’s archives are now housed in Liverpool University Library, and his work and life are subjected to critical scrutiny. He lectured regularly, published a couple of minor philosophical books and some interesting articles, and wrote several of the great classics of philosophical science fiction: Last and First Men, Last Men in London, Sinus, Odd John, Starmaker, The Flames. Olaf Stapledon was born a hundred years ago in the little peninsula between the Dee and the Mersey, and lived there all his life, apart from a brief sojourn in Balliol and Port Said, and duty with the Quaker ambulance corps during the First World War. ![]() in Liverpool in 1925 (in philosophical psychology), and was an active and famous philosopher till he died, in 1950. But he gave classes for the Workers Educational Association from 1912, extra-mural lectures on philosophy from the 20’s, gained his Ph.D. The most widely known of Merseyside philosophers was never a full-time academic. From the December 1986 issue of Chronicles. ![]()
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