A. C. Grayling

A.C. Grayling is a British philosopher, author, and academic who is the founder and Master of the New College of the Humanities in London. Born in 1949, he has published over thirty books on philosophy, ethics, and intellectual history, and is a prominent public intellectual. The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind explores how the seventeenth century — through science, philosophy, art, and political upheaval — gave birth to the modern world. Grayling's extensive body of work includes The History of Philosophy, Democracy and Its Crisis, and The Good Book. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers accessible, elegantly written philosophy and intellectual history from one of Britain's most prominent public philosophers.