The great philosophers
Subtitle: from Socrates to Foucault
By: Jeremy Stangroom and James Garvey
Contributors: Garvey, James, 1967-
Publisher: Metro Books; METRO BOOKS EDITION
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780760791967
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Philosophers; Ancient Philosophers; Medieval Philosophers; Philosophy; Modern Philosophers; Biography; History
Description: Profiles thirty-seven philosophers while concisely describing their primary ideas and the major theme of their work. The philosophers were selected as the greatest philosopical thinkers for each of the philosophical schools and for their contribution to the history and future of the field of philosophy.
Notes: "Copyright c2005, Arcturus Publishing Limited."
Table of contents: title: Ancient & Medieval: Socrates; title: Plato; title: Aristotle; title: Marcus Aurelius; title: Saint Thomas Aquinas; title: Renaissance: Niccolo Machiavelli; title: Francis Bacon; title: 17th Century: Thomas Hobbes; title: Rene Descartes; title: Blaise Pascal; title: John Locke; title: Baruch Spinoza; title: Gottfried Leibniz; title: 18th Century: George Berkeley; title: Voltaire; title: David Hume; title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: Immanuel Kant; title: Thomas Paine; title: Jeremy Bentham; title: Georg Hegel; title: 19th Century: Arthur Schopenhauer; title: John Stuart Mill; title: Soren Kierkegaard; title: Karl Marx; title: Charles Sanders Pierce; title: William James; title: Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Edmund Husserl; title: John Dewey; title: 20th Century: Bertrand Russell; title: Ludwig Wittgenstein; title: Martin Heidegger; title: Sir Karl Popper; title: Jean-Paul Sartre; title: AJ Ayer; title: Michel Foucault; title: Index.