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Author Critchley, Simon, 1960-

Title The book of dead philosophers / Simon Critchley.

Imprint New York : Vintage Books, 2009, c2008.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  190 C869b 2009    ---  Available
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.
Philosophers -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 9780307390431 (pbk.) : $15.95
0307390438 (pbk.) : $15.95
Standard No. NLGGC 315390476

 
    
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