A History of Contemporary Philosophy
Subtitle: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
By: Mariano Fazio, Francisco Fernández Labastida ; translated by Kathryn Litherland
Contributors: Fernández Labastida, Francisco, 1966-; Litherland, Kathryn
Publisher: Scepter, c2011.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781594171406
Subjects: Philosophy; Western Civilization; Modern Philosophy
Other titles: History of contemporary philosophy, 19th and 20th centuries
Work titles: Historia de la filosofía. 4, Filosofía contemporánea
Description: This new survey of recent philosophical thought, ranging from Romanticism to Post-Modernism, provides a critical resource for today's serious student of Western Philosophy. The authors write from a classical and Christian perspective. While they are consistently fair in their treatment of the wide diversity of thinkers of the past two centuries, they maintain a helpful critical focus throughout. They see that the cultural challenge of our times involves the choice between two opposing views of man, who is either a being alone in the universe and closed in upon himself, or a person open to transcendence. Their discussions guide the reader gently and persuasively to the conclusion that only the latter view accords with the constants of the human spirit.
Notes: Translated from the Spanish, originally published: Madrid : Palabra, 2004.