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Books

The Life Inside by Andy West

Amna Whiston looks at a book on the liberating experience of teaching philosophy in prison.

The art of philosophising, Bertrand Russell tells us, is the art of rational conjecture. By this he meant the rational skill of articulating the most likely truth about something where it is impossible to know with certainty what the truth is. But what makes most people comfortable, Russell further observes, is their own opinions, where truth is a secondary consideration. Prisoners are no exception is this respect. The Life Inside is essentially about Andy West’s experience of teaching philosophy in prisons over a period of four years.

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