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The Story of Thought: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Philosophy - Softcover

Magee, Bryan

 
9780789444554: The Story of Thought: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Philosophy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0789444550 ISBN 13: 9780789444554
Publisher: The Quality Paperback Bookclub, 1998

Synopsis

The Story of Thought: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Philosophy (Paperback) The Story of Thought packs a lot of information into a manageably-sized book. Magee does a great job of balancing the various aspects of the history of philosophy that may be of interest to different readers. Each philosopher is covered in a section of a few pages outlining the thinker's major ideas, but also containing sidebars with famous quotes, major works, related topics and historical notes. The book is organized chronologically and philosophers are grouped into intellectual movements, introduced and expanded by insets. This format allows the book to be used as a point reference on a single thinker or school of thought, but also reads well from cover to cover as the "story of thought". If you are looking for a good introduction to philosophy, it would be hard to find a more complete, accessible, and universally appealing resource.

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Publisher
The Quality Paperback Bookclub
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0789444550
ISBN 13 
9780789444554
Binding
Paperback