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A short history of modern philosophy : from Descartes to Wittgenstein / Roger Scruton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scruton, Roger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Short History of Modern Philosophy is a lucid, challenging and up-to-date survey of the philosophers and philosophies from the founding father of modern philosophy, René Descartes, to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Roger Scruton has been widely praised for his success in making the history of modern philosophy cogent and intelligible to anyone wishing to understand this fascinating subject. In this new edition, he has responded to the explosion of interest in the history of philosophy by substantially rewriting the bo
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; History of philosophy and history of ideas; The rise of modern philosophy; Descartes; The Cartesian revolution; Spinoza; Leibniz; Locke and Berkeley; The idea of a moral science; Hume; Kant I: The Critique of Pure Reason; Kant II: Ethics and aesthetics; Hegel; Reactions: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; Political philosophy from Hobbes to Hegel; Marx; Utilitarianism and after; Frege; Phenomenology and existentialism; Wittgenstein; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: From Descartes to Wittgenstein. 1981.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781134792085
- 1134792085
- 9781280325229
- 1280325224
- 9781134792092
- 1134792093
- 9780203198834
- 0203198832
- OCLC:
- 437077537
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