Binding: Paperback
Description: Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosophers provide an accessible and exciting account of Western philosophy and its greatest thinkers. The contributors include A. J. Ayer Bernard Williams Martha Nussbaum Peter Singer and John Searle so that the book is not only an introduction to the philosophers of the past but gives an invaluable insight into the view and personalities of some of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
Title: The Great Philosophers An Introduction To Western Philosophy
Author(s): Magee Bryan (Fellow In Philosophy Yale Usa Visiting Fellow At All Souls Oxford Visiting Professor Fellow In Philosophy Yale Usa Visiting Fellow At All Souls Oxford Visiting Professor King's College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192893222
Pages: 352 Pages, Numerous Halftones
Publication Date: 1/18/2001
Category: History Of Western Philosophy