num_pages: 360
description: An illuminating celebration of more than 80 of the world's most important thinkers this book explores the fascinating stories of their lives their loves and their pioneering ideas.Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher entries trace the ideas and beliefs and the relationships and rivalries that inspired the great thinkers and influenced their work providing revealing insights into what drove them to question the meaning of life and come up with new ways of understanding the world.Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of philosophers their homes friends studies and their personal belongings together with pages from original manuscripts first editions and correspondence this book introduces the key ideas themes and working methods of each featured individual setting their ideas within a wider historical and cultural context. Charting the development of ideas across the centuries in both the East and West from ancient Chinese philosophy to the work of contemporary thinkers Philosophers provides a compelling glimpse into the personal lives loves and influences of the great philosophers as they probed into life's big ideas.
language: English
title: Philosophers: Their Lives and Works
publisher: DK