Ed D'Angelo

Ed D’Angelo was born in Brooklyn, NY and graduated from Nova High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The first in his family to graduate from college, he earned six degrees, including a BS in engineering, summa cum laude, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Master’s in Library Science from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. D’Angelo taught philosophy at several colleges and universities before working at the Brooklyn Public Library where he was employed as a supervising librarian and conducted a philosophy discussion group for the public. He is the author of Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library, a book which raises an alarm about the decline of the public library’s traditional mission to provide the intellectual resources needed to sustain a functioning democratic system. His latest book is the product of a lifetime of thinking about ancient Greek philosophy. The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book is a study of ancient Greek philosophy in an easy-to-read, question and answer format. The final chapter of the book explains how, since the twentieth century, academic philosophy has departed from the ancient Greek model of doing philosophy, and includes a concise summary of the methods used in modern analytic and Continental philosophy.