Contemporary philosophy since 1850
By: Translated by Wade Baskin
Contributors: Baskin, Wade, translator
Edition: [Rev. and enl. ed.].
Series: His The history of philosophy -- v. 7
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Modern Philosophy; History
Description: Publication of Contemporary Philosophy brings to an end a project initiated five years ago - completion of the translation of Emile Brehier's comprehensive study of the evolution through philosophical thought from its pre-Socratic origins through the first third of the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: General characteristics of the period; title: John Stuart Mill; title: Transformism, evolutionism, and positivism; title: Religious philosophy; title: The critical movement; title: Metaphysics; title: Friedrich Nietzsche; title: The spiritualism of Henri Bergson; title: Philosophies of life and action; pragmatism; title: Idealism; title: The critique of the sciences; title: Philosophical criticism; title: Realism; title: Sociology and philosophy in France; title: Psychology and philosophy; title: Philosophy after 1930; title: Index.