Émile Perreau-Saussine

Jan 31, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Jonathan Rée |Émile Perreau-Saussine |Nathan Pinkoski

In​ 2009, University College Dublin put on a conference for Alasdair MacIntyre to mark his eightieth birthday. The range of participants reflected the breadth of his interests: professional philosophers, social radicals (with a scattering of Marxists), Cardinal Cahal Daly and a coachload of Catholic students from Louvain. We were all admirers wanting to pay tribute, but MacIntyre declined, saying that he didn’t want the conference to focus on him.