Great Thinkers A-Z - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826467423 ISBN 13: 9780826467423

Publisher: Continuum, 2004

Synopsis

Great Thinkers, AGÇôZ brings together 100 short, accessible snapshots of the people who have shaped Western thought from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the worldGÇÖs leading experts, describe a major thinkerGÇÖs life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one. Covering philosophers as well as cultural and scientific thinkersGÇösuch as Foucault, Darwin, Einstein and FreudGÇöwho have had a major impact on philosophy, Great Thinkers, AGÇôZ is the ideal book for anyone interested in the history of ideas and in contemporary thought. Entries include: Adorno, Arendt, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Avicenna, Ayer, Bacon, Baudrillard, de Beauvoir, Benjamin, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Boethius, Brentano, Butler, Camus, Carnap, Chomsky, Churchland, Cixous, Collingwood, Comte, Craik, Croce, Darwin, Davidson, Deleuze, Dennett, Descartes, Derrida, Dewey, Dilthey, Duns Scotus, Einstein, Foucault, Frege, Freud, Gadamer, Godel, Habermas, Hayek, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, Irigaray, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kripke, Kristeva, Kuhn, Leibniz, Levinas, Lewis, Locke, Machiavelli, MacIntyre, Marx, Macmurray, Merleau-Ponty, Mill, Montaigne, Moore, Nagel, Negri, Nietzsche, Nozick, Nussbaum, Paine, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Plotinus, Popper, Putnam, Pythagoras, Quine, Rawls, Rorty, Rousseau, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Searle, Seneca, Sidgwick, Singer, Socrates, Spinoza, Taylor, Turing, Vico, Weil, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Zeno

About this title

Product Description:

From Adorno to Wittgenstein, this compilation of 101 signed articles on influential thinkers locates each philosopher in historical and intellectual context; provides a clear account of their principal writings and ideas; and assesses their impact and importance. The entries span the history of Western thought from ancient Greece to the present and include thinkers such as Darwin, Freud and Einstein who, while not philosophers themselves, had a major influence on philosophy.

Review:

"If you just can't remember what you learned in college about Gottlob Frege or Gilbert Ryle, this is the place to turn for help. The editors' selections are both comprehensive and somewhat idiosyncratic, as they admit in their introduction: not every great thinker is included in the 100 here, but rather the representative of all major schools of thought, from Pythagoras to postmodern. This is not philosophy for dummies Kant will never be simple but the author of each segment boils the thinker's idea's down to a point where they can be fairly well absorbed. Most useful to the student who needs a quick reference on these thinkers and their ideas, this volume also provides lists of suggested reading for those who wish to use it as a starting point for further investigation."--Sanford Lakoff "Publishers Weekly "

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0826467423
• ISBN 13: 9780826467423
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Baggini Julian