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A History of Western Thought

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Stephen Trombley's A History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today.

No major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes Trombley's attention: the Christian Scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages, the great philosophers of the Enlightenment, the German idealists from Kant to Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau; Kierkegaard and the existentialists; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead and Wittgenstein; and - last but not least - the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857898746
SKU
V9780857898746
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
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99-10

About Stephen Trombley
Stephen Trombley is a writer, editor and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. He collaborated with Alan Bullock on the second edition of The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (1988), and was editor of The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (1999). His books include The Execution Protocol, Sir Frederick Treves: The Extraordinary Edwardian, The Right to Reproduce, 'All That Summer She Was ... Read more

Reviews for A History of Western Thought
Such is the breadth of reference in this book that even experts are bound to come across numerous things they didn't know
Observer
A compressed but lucid journey through 2,500 years of philosophy
Financial Times
Does a remarkable job of summarising even the most fiendishly complicated philosophy
Irish Examiner

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