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An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-1-4051-4180-2
Hardcover
400 pages
August 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • "The 22 chapters of this history are lucidly written and with enough humour in them to cheer up the educated general reader even in the midst of the most arid of philosophical discussions." The Times Higher Education Supplement

  • Illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed survey of 2,500 years of Western philosophical thought

  • Now features over 60 illustrations, ranging from Death of Socrates by Dufresnoy, through to portraits of Kant, Mill and Hegel, photographs of Darwin, and Wittgenstein's military pass

  • Includes 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.
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