AN ILLUSTRATED BRIEF HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY PB

This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kennys acclaimed survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available. Spanning 2,500 years of thought, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. Replete with over 60 illustrations - ranging from Dufresnoys The Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas Mores Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freuds own sketch of the Ego and the Id, and Wittgensteins Austrian military identity card - this lucid and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.