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This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny s acclaimed survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available. Spanning 2,500 years of thought, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. Replete with over 60 illustrations - ranging from Dufresnoy s The Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas More s Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freud s own sketch of the Ego and the Id, and Wittgenstein s Austrian military identity card - this lucid and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.

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Author

Kenny, Anthony

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781405141796

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, Western