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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD
ISBN-139781405141796
eBay Product ID (ePID)88459209
Product Key Features
Book TitleAn Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy
AuthorAnthony Kenny
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy
Publication Year2006
Dimensions
Item Height244mm
Item Width170mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAnthony Kenny
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom