Introducing WRITERS Leela Dutt and Robin Attfield
Steering a Safe Passage –
Philosophy and Fiction
Fiction and Philosophy
Leela writes contemporary fiction, much of it about travel, while Robin is an emeritus professor of philosophy whose works discuss ethics, environmental philosophy, and the history of ideas. His latest book THE ETHICS OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS is due out on April 26th - you can pre-order today from Amazon if you follow the link on this website, or alternatively you can get it reduced to £10.49 if you look at the flier - click here.
This photo is of a splendid boat in Ha Long Bay, in north east Vietnam, where our twin great-nieces steered a safe passage for us through thousands of towering limestone islands!
READY TO PRE-ORDER TODAY
Robin’s latest book THE ETHICS OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS is out on April 26th, and you can pre-order it from Amazon for £14.99 paperback. Alternatively there is a flier from politybooks.com on this website which invites you to buy it from Polity Press with a 30% discount, so they are selling it for £10.49 if you quote the code CLI30 - click here. It is also available as an ebook.
“…renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms, threats to future generations, and to the species with which we share the planet..."
WELCOME to our website, which highlights this and other earlier books we have published, ranging from Leela’s fiction to Robin’s books on philosophy and ethics. All of Robin’s books are available to order or buy in the usual book shops. For Spanish readers, a translation of Robin's Environmental Ethics: a Very Short Introduction has just come out as Ética ambiental: Una breve introducción, published by San Pablo Press and the Pontifical University of Spain. This website lists all our books and includes a few of our reviews.
Contact us today for more information:
info@attfieldduttbooks.co.uk
Leela’s blog is shamimeolive.wordpress.com
About Leela and Robin
Robin and Leela have travelled widely all over the world, beginning when Robin taught philosophy for a year (1972 – 73) at what was then the University of Ife in Nigeria. Their first two children went to a multinational nursery there, and Leela later drew extensively on the experience in her recent novel A Distant Voice in the Darkness. There followed a term for Robin teaching philosophy at the University of Nairobi in 1975 when their youngest child was a small baby; the family was warned not to come because of a milk shortage but luckily Leela was feeding Kate herself so all five came!
Over the years, Robin has been invited to lecture and attend conferences in many countries, and they have also taken holidays, from Los Angeles to Melbourne, and from Reykjavik to Cape Town; Leela always writes about it. They have taken their children to Denmark many times to visit Leela's mother's family, and to Kolkata to stay with Leela's father's family.
An important theme in Robin's later books is the ethics behind the earth's greatest crisis to date - see particularly his Environmental Ethics which appears in Oxford University's well-known Very Short Introduction series. He is now an emeritus professor of philosophy; his works discuss ethics, environmental philosophy, and the history of ideas.
Leela and Robin are both Quakers and have lived in Cardiff for 56 years, having met at Oxford. They have seven grandchildren, of whom six survive, and one great-grandchild.
Over the years, Robin has been invited to lecture and attend conferences in many countries, and they have also taken holidays, from Los Angeles to Melbourne, and from Reykjavik to Cape Town; Leela always writes about it. They have taken their children to Denmark many times to visit Leela's mother's family, and to Kolkata to stay with Leela's father's family.
An important theme in Robin's later books is the ethics behind the earth's greatest crisis to date - see particularly his Environmental Ethics which appears in Oxford University's well-known Very Short Introduction series. He is now an emeritus professor of philosophy; his works discuss ethics, environmental philosophy, and the history of ideas.
Leela and Robin are both Quakers and have lived in Cardiff for 56 years, having met at Oxford. They have seven grandchildren, of whom six survive, and one great-grandchild.