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Question: Does anyone have any knowledge of the philosopher George Hampton!?
What were the titles of some of his books and a little info about him please!. I am at a lost trying to locate one of his books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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The only George Hampton I can come up with that fancied himself as a philosopher was first and foremost an artist!. I'm talking the type that puts paint on canvas!. I remember he wrote a book called "The Wake" which has been referred to as a novel of ideas or a philosophical novel!. This is not uncharted waters of course with Voltaire and Sartre coming to mind at the moment!. Flesh and blood characters are interwoven by means of screed into a fabric of a narrative!. Hampton's novel throbs with life and explicit sexuality!. So did his art!! "The Wake" in some ways seems to be what one one might expect from a collaboration between Plato and Stendhal in some places!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well, he does seem fairly obscure!. There is a Wikipedia article about a guy named George Essex Hampton!. I'm not sure if this is the guy you're looking for, but here you go anyway!.Www@QuestionHome@Com