The Blackwell guide to the modern philosophers : from Descartes to Nietzsche / / edited by Steven M. Emmanuel [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910621299403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Publishers, 2001
• ISBN: 1-78268-522-7; 1-4051-6485-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 423 p. )
• Collana: Blackwell philosophy guides The Blackwell guide to the modern philosophers; Blackwell philosophy guides ; ; [3]
• Altri autori (Persone): EmmanuelSteven M
• Disciplina: 190
• Soggetti: Philosophers, Modern - Europe; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion; Electronic books
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-414) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: René Descartes (1596-1650) / Gary Hatfield -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) / A.P. Martinich -- Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) / Don Garrett -- Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) / Steven Nadler -- G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) / Donald Rutherford -- John Locke (1632-1704) / Martha Brandt Bolton -- George Berkeley (1685-1753) / George Pappas -- David Hume (1711-76) / David Fate Norton -- Thomas Reid (1710-96) / Ernest Sosa ; and James Van Cleve -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-88) / N.J.H. Dent -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) / Patricia Kitcher -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) / Ross Harrison -- G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) / Stephen Houlgate -- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) / C. Stephen Evans -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) / Christopher Janaway -- John Stuart Mill (1806-73) / Wendy Donner ; and Richard Fumerton -- Karl Marx (1818-83) / Terrell Carver -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) / Richard Schacht.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This guide brings together eighteen original interpretations of the modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. The contributors ; succeed brilliantly in placing their figures within a rich historical, cultural, and philosophical context, noting some of the important ways in which their ideas and arguments were shaped by the intellectual currents of the time, and how they in turn shaped subsequent philosophical debate." "Each chapter focuses on the central ideas and arguments of an individual philosopher with discussion ranging over a wide variety of topics, including morality, politics, religion, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, logic, mathematics, and the natural sciences."--Jacket.