Anthony Harrison-Barbet was
educated at St Albans School and the universities of Dublin (Trinity), Gottingen,
Oxford (Magdalen), and Sussex. After
many years teaching in schools and universities in England and Ireland he is
now an 'independent scholar'. He is the
author of Mastering Philosophy, Thomas Holloway: Victorian
Philanthropist, and E. H. Visiak: Writer and Mystic; and is
currently researching for a book on philosophical anthropology Culture and
the Human Condition.