Research Catalog

Title

A history of western philosophy / Bertrand Russell.

Author

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

Publication

New York : Simon and Schuster, c1945.

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Details

Additional Authors

Putnam, Hilary

Description

xxiii, 895 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.

Subjects

• Association copies (Provenance)
• Philosophy > History

Genre/Form

Association copies (Provenance)

Note

• "A Touchstone book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ancient philosophy: The Pre-Socratics -- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle -- Ancient philosophy after Aristotle -- Catholic philosophy: The fathers -- The schoolmen -- Modern philosophy: From the Renaissance to Hume -- From Rousseau to the present day.

ISBN

0671201581

OCLC

• 2813997
• SCSB-10561317

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library