Anthony Kenny 
An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy 

This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny’s 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 Dufresnoy’s The Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas More’s Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freud’s own sketch of the Ego and the Id, and Wittgenstein’s Austrian military identity card – this lucid and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface.

List Of Illustrations.

Acknowledgements.

1. Philosophy in its Infancy.

2. The Athens of Socrates.

3. The Philosophy of Plato.

4. The System of Aristotle.

5. Greek Philosophy after Aristotle.

6. Early Christian Philosophy.

7. Early Medieval Philosophy.

8. Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century.

9. Oxford Philosophers.

10. Renaissance Philosophy.

11. The Age of Descartes.

12. English Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century.

13. Continental Philosophy in the Age of Louis XIV.

14. British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century.

15. The Enlightenment.

16. The Critical Philosophy of Kant.

17. German Idealism and Materialism.

18. The Utilitarians.

19. Three Nineteenth-Century Philosophers.

20. Three Modern Masters.

21. Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics.

22. The Philosophy of Wittgenstein.

Afterword.

Suggestions for Further Reading.

Index.

Circa l’autore

Sir Anthony Kenny was formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford University, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford. He was also President of the British Academy, Chairman of the Board of the British Library and a Trustee of Wittgenstein’s copyrights. He is the author or editor of more than 40 books, including Wittgenstein (Revised Edition, 2006), Frege: An Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy (2000) and The Legacy of Wittgenstein (1984), all published by Blackwell.