| Edition |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
| Description |
xxxviii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Granta, 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265). |
| Contents |
Pre-Socratics, physiologists, sages and sophists -- Platonists, Cyrenaics, Aristotelians and cynics-- Sceptics, stoics and Epicureans -- Classical Chinese philosophers -- Romans (serious and ridiculous) and Neoplatonists -- The deaths of Christian saints -- Medieval philosophers: Christian, Islamic and Judaic -- Philosophy in the Latin Middle Ages -- Renaissance, reformation and scientific revolution -- Rationalists (material and immaterial), empiricists and religious dissenters -- Philosophes, materialists and sentimentalists -- Many Germans and some non-Germans -- The masters of suspicion and some unsuspicious Americans -- The long twentieth century I: philosophy in wartime -- The long twentieth century II: analytics, continentals, a few moribunds and a near-death experience. |
| Subject |
Philosophers -- Biography.
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Philosophers -- Anecdotes.
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| ISBN |
9780307390431 (pbk.) : $15.95 |
|
0307390438 (pbk.) : $15.95 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 315390476 |
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