Philosophers behaving badly
By: Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.
Contributors: Thompson, Mel, 1946-
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers; Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Chester Speings; Chester Springs, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Philosophers -- Europe -- Biography.; Philosophy, European -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: A cautionary note; title: Introduction; title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the philosopher as victim; title: Arthur Schopenhauer : the rebarbative bodhisattva; title: Friedrich Nietzsche : a sickly Übermensch; title: Feature : Nietzsche and Nazism; title: Bertrand Russell : the mathematics of human behaviour; title: Ludwig Wittgenstein : anger and asceticism; title: Martin Heidegger : magician, predator, peasant and Nazi; title: Feature : The Héloïse complex; title: Jean-Paul Sartre : intellectual tyranny, charm and bad faith; title: Feature : Women philosophers behaving badly; title: Michel Foucault : madness, sex and punishment; title: Feature : Demetrius, philosopher king of Athens.