Great thinkers A-Z / / edited by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819544503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Continnum, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-78034-601-8; 1-283-20590-4; 9786613205902
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 275 p. )
• Disciplina: 190
• Soggetti: Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Theodor Adorno -- St Thomas Aquinas -- Hannah Arendt -- Aristotle -- St Augustine of Hippo -- Avicenna -- A. J. Ayer -- Francis Bacon -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Walter Benjamin -- Jeremy Bentham -- Henri Bergson -- George Berkeley -- Franz Brentano -- Joseph Butler -- Albert Camus -- Rudolf Carnap -- Noam Chomsky -- Paul Churchland -- Helene Cixous -- R. G. Collingwood -- Auguste Comte -- Charles Darwin -- Donald Davidson -- Gilles Deleuze -- Daniel Dennett -- Jacques Derrida -- Rene Descartes -- John Dewey -- Wilhelm Dilthey -- Albert Einstein -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Michel Foucault -- Gottlob Frege -- Sigmund Freud -- Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Kurt Godel -- Jurgen Habermas -- F. A. Hayek -- Georg Hegel -- Martin Heidegger -- Thomas Hobbes -- David Hume -- Edmund Husserl -- Luce Irigaray -- William James -- Immanuel Kant -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Saul Kripke -- Thomas Kuhn -- Jacques Lacan -- Gottfried Leibniz -- Emmanuel Levinas -- David Lewis -- John Locke -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Alasdair MacIntyre -- Karl Marx -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- John Stuart Mill -- Michel de Montaigne -- G. E. Moore -- Thomas Nagel -- Friedrich Neitzsche -- Robert Nozick -- Martha Nussbaum -- Thomas Paine -- Blaise Pascal -- Charles Peirce -- Plato -- Plotinus -- Karl Popper -- Hilary Putnam -- Pythagoras -- Willard Van Orman Quine -- Frank Ramsey -- John Rawls -- Richard ; Rorty -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Bertrand Russell -- Gilbert Ryle -- George Santayana -- Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Sommario/riassunto: Great Thinkers, A-Z brings together short, accessible snapshots of the people who have shaped Western thought from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the world's leading experts, describe a major thinker's life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one. Covering philosophers as well as cultural and scientific thinkers - such as Foucault, Darwin, Einstein and Freud - who have had a major impact on philosophy, Great Thinkers, A-Z is the ideal book for anyone interested in the history of ideas and in contemporary thought.