Great Thinkers, A-Z brings together 100 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.
Entries include: Adorno, Arendt, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Avicenna, Ayer, Bacon, Baudrillard, de Beauvoir, Benjamin, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Boethius, Brentano, Butler, Camus, Carnap, Chomsky, Churchland, Cixous, Collingwood, Comte, Craik, Croce, Darwin, Davidson, Deleuze, Dennett, Descartes, Derrida, Dewey, Dilthey, Duns Scotus, Einstein, Foucault, Frege, Freud, Gadamer, Godel, Habermas, Hayek, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, Irigaray, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kripke, Kristeva, Kuhn, Leibniz, Levinas, Lewis, Locke, Machiavelli, MacIntyre, Marx, Macmurray, Merleau-Ponty, Mill, Montaigne, Moore, Nagel, Negri, Nietzsche, Nozick, Nussbaum, Paine, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Plotinus, Popper, Putnam, Pythagoras, Quine, Rawls, Rorty, Rousseau, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Searle, Seneca, Sidgwick, Singer, Socrates, Spinoza, Taylor, Turing, Vico, Weil, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Zeno
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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
- Hélène Cixous
- R. G. Collingwood
- Auguste Comte
- Charles Darwin
- Donald Davidson
- Gilles Deleuze
- Daniel Dennett
- Jacques Derrida
- René Descartes
- John Dewey
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Albert Einstein
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Michel Foucault
- Gottlob Frege
- Sigmund Freud
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Kurt Gödel
- Jürgen Habermas
- F. A. Hayek
- Georg Hegel
- Martin Heidegger
- Thomas Hobbes
- David Hume
- Edmund Husserl
- Luce Irigaray
- William James
- Immanuel Kant
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Saul Kripke
- Thomas Kuhn
- Jacques Lacan
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Emmanuel Levinas
- David Lewis
- John Locke
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Alasdair Maclntyre
- 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
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- John Duns Scotus
- John Searle
- Seneca
- Henry Sidgwick
- Peter Singer
- Socrates
- Baruch Spinoza
- Charles Taylor
- Alan Turing
- Giambattista Vico
- Simone Weil
- A. N. Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Chronological Index
- Thematic Guides
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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