History of Western Philosophy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 780
ISBN-13: 9780203487976
Description: First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Times noted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophy one of t.