A Brief History of Western Philosophy - Softcover

Kenny, Sir Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631201327 ISBN 13: 9780631201328

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

In this lucid and masterful work, the eminent scholar Anthony Kenny offers an indispensable resource - the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available.

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From the Back Cover:

In this lucid and masterful work, the eminent scholar Anthony Kenny offers an indispensable resource - the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available.

Spanning 2,500 years of thought, this superb volume provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, amongst many others.

Unrivaled in its authority and range, the book is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.

About the Author:

Sir Anthony Kenny is Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford. For many years he was a philosophy tutor at Balliol College, of which he became master. A former President of the British Academy, he was until recently Chairman of the Board of the British Library. He has written a number of influential books on the history of philosophy, and is editor of The Wittgenstein Reader, (Blackwell, 1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0631201327
• ISBN 13: 9780631201328
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 365