Philosophers : their lives and works / foreword by Simon Blackburn.

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TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2019Edition: First American editionDescription: 360 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781465482037
1465482032

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DDC classification:

109.2

LOC classification:

B 104 P568 2019

Contents:

Ancient : Laozi ; Confucius ; Siddhartha Gautama ; Diotima of Mantinea ; Socrates ; Diogenes of Sinope ; Plato ; Aristotle ; Mencius ; Zhuangzi ; Epicurus ; Marcus Aurelius ; Nagarjuna ; Augustine of Hippo ; Hypatia ; Directory Medieval : Boethius ; Ibn Sina ; St. Anselm ; Heloise ; Hildegard of Bingen ; Ibn Rushd ; Zhu Xi ; Moses Maimonides ; Albertus Magnus ; Thomas Aquinas ; William of Ockham ; Directory Early modern : Disiderius Erasmus ; Niccolo Machiavelli ; Michel de Montaigne ; Francis Bacon ; Thomas Hobbes ; Rene Descartes ; Blaise Pascal ; Baruch Spinoza ; John Locke ; Gottfried Leibniz ; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ; George Berkeley ; Voltaire ; Directory Modern : David Hume ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Adam Smith ; Immanuel Kant ; Edmund Burke ; Jeremy Bentham ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; J.W. von Goethe ; Friedrich Schiller ; Georg Hegel ; Friedrich Schlegel ; Ram Mohan Roy ; Arthur Schopenhauer ; Auguste Comte ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Ludwig Feuerbach ; John Stuart Mill ; Soren Kierkegaard ; Henry David Thoreau ; Karl Marx ; William James ; Friedrich Nietzsche ; Directory 20th century : Edmund Husserl ; Jane Addams ; Henri Bergson ; John Dewey ; George Santayana ; Bertrand Russell ; Max Scheler ; Jose Ortega y Gasset ; Karl Jaspers ; Ludwig Wittgenstein ; Martin Heidegger ; Herbert Marcuse ; Gilbert Ryle ; Hand-Georg Gadamer ; Karl Popper ; Theodor Adorno ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Hannah Arendt ; Simone de Beauvoir ; Simone Weil ; Arne Naess ; Roland Barthes ; Louis Althusser ; Iris Murdoch ; Philippa Foot ; John Rawls ; Thomas Kuhn ; Jean-Francois Lyotard ; Frantz Fanon ; Michel Foucault ; Directory Today : Noam Chomsky ; Jean Baudrillard ; Jacques Derrida : Richard Rorty ; Susan Sontag ; Helen Cixous ; Julia Kristeva ; Martha Nussbaum ; Slavoj Zizek ; bell hooks ; Judith Butler ; Directory

Summary: Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher, the biographies trace the ideas, friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired the great thinkers and influenced their work, providing revealing insights into what drove them to question the meaning of life and come up with new ways of understanding the world and the history of ideas

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Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	B 104 P568 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000170223

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Includes index.

Ancient : Laozi ; Confucius ; Siddhartha Gautama ; Diotima of Mantinea ; Socrates ; Diogenes of Sinope ; Plato ; Aristotle ; Mencius ; Zhuangzi ; Epicurus ; Marcus Aurelius ; Nagarjuna ; Augustine of Hippo ; Hypatia ; Directory
Medieval : Boethius ; Ibn Sina ; St. Anselm ; Heloise ; Hildegard of Bingen ; Ibn Rushd ; Zhu Xi ; Moses Maimonides ; Albertus Magnus ; Thomas Aquinas ; William of Ockham ; Directory
Early modern : Disiderius Erasmus ; Niccolo Machiavelli ; Michel de Montaigne ; Francis Bacon ; Thomas Hobbes ; Rene Descartes ; Blaise Pascal ; Baruch Spinoza ; John Locke ; Gottfried Leibniz ; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ; George Berkeley ; Voltaire ; Directory
Modern : David Hume ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Adam Smith ; Immanuel Kant ; Edmund Burke ; Jeremy Bentham ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; J.W. von Goethe ; Friedrich Schiller ; Georg Hegel ; Friedrich Schlegel ; Ram Mohan Roy ; Arthur Schopenhauer ; Auguste Comte ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Ludwig Feuerbach ; John Stuart Mill ; Soren Kierkegaard ; Henry David Thoreau ; Karl Marx ; William James ; Friedrich Nietzsche ; Directory
20th century : Edmund Husserl ; Jane Addams ; Henri Bergson ; John Dewey ; George Santayana ; Bertrand Russell ; Max Scheler ; Jose Ortega y Gasset ; Karl Jaspers ; Ludwig Wittgenstein ; Martin Heidegger ; Herbert Marcuse ; Gilbert Ryle ; Hand-Georg Gadamer ; Karl Popper ; Theodor Adorno ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Hannah Arendt ; Simone de Beauvoir ; Simone Weil ; Arne Naess ; Roland Barthes ; Louis Althusser ; Iris Murdoch ; Philippa Foot ; John Rawls ; Thomas Kuhn ; Jean-Francois Lyotard ; Frantz Fanon ; Michel Foucault ; Directory
Today : Noam Chomsky ; Jean Baudrillard ; Jacques Derrida : Richard Rorty ; Susan Sontag ; Helen Cixous ; Julia Kristeva ; Martha Nussbaum ; Slavoj Zizek ; bell hooks ; Judith Butler ; Directory

Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher, the biographies trace the ideas, friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired the great thinkers and influenced their work, providing revealing insights into what drove them to question the meaning of life and come up with new ways of understanding the world and the history of ideas

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