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This book is original, insightful, and provocative. It utilizes key insights from Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy to rigorously analyse the widely used but contested concept of flourishing. Its conclusions cannot be ignored. * Xavier Symons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University , USA * Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley has seized upon Wittgenstein's ideas and methods and used them to shed much needed light on the notion of human flourishing as deployed in education, psychology and political debate. His criticisms of essentialism, subjectivism, reductionism and scientism are powerful and persuasive. His advocacy of civilised humanism in the face of its numerous adversaries is laudable. * P.M.S. Hacker, Emeritus Research Fellow, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK *

This book is original, insightful, and provocative. It utilizes key insights from Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy to rigorously analyse the widely used but contested concept of flourishing. Its conclusions cannot be ignored. * Xavier Symons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University , USA *

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Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Bath Spa University, UK.

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