num_pages: 480
description: Already a classic in its first year of publication, this landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy, "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2001.
language: English
title: The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
titlecomplete: The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
characters: Parmenides, Johannes Kepler, Aristotle (philosopher), Nicolaus Copernicus, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Pythagoras, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Plato, Robert Boyle, Galileo Galilei, Immanuel Kant, Zeno, Homer (Greek Poet), Lucretius, Socrates (philosopher), Francis Bacon (philosopher), Augustine of Hippo, Democritus, Epicurus, René Descartes, Anaximander, Thomas Aquinas, Anaxagoras, Empodecles
genres: Medieval, Classics, Humanities, History, Science, Philosophy, Greece, Ancient History, Nonfiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1851
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company