History Of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection With Political And Social Circumstances From The Earliest Times To The Present Day
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Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few works in the history of ideas have achieved the ambition of Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy — a sweeping, authoritative chronicle of human thought from the pre-Socratic thinkers of ancient Greece through to the philosophical currents of the modern age. Russell traces the intricate web connecting philosophical ideas to the political and social circumstances that shaped them, arguing that no thinker can be fully understood in isolation from the world they inhabited. Written with remarkable clarity and an unmistakable wit, the work surveys titans such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and Nietzsche, presenting their ideas with both scholarly rigour and accessible prose that made it a landmark bestseller upon its publication in 1945. Beyond its function as a comprehensive survey, the work stands as a philosophical statement in its own right — Russell's own empiricist and rationalist sympathies colour every chapter, producing a narrative that is as much critical argument as it is historical account. The breadth of intellectual territory covered is staggering, yet Russell never loses the reader in abstraction, instead grounding each movement — from Stoicism to Logical Positivism — in the human drama that surrounded it. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, this volume remains an indispensable cornerstone of any serious reader's library, and one that continues to provoke, challenge, and illuminate in equal measure.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1947, George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few works in the history of ideas have achieved the ambition of Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy — a sweeping, authoritative chronicle of human thought from the pre-Socratic thinkers of ancient Greece through to the philosophical currents of the modern age. Russell traces the intricate web connecting philosophical ideas to the political and social circumstances that shaped them, arguing that no thinker can be fully understood in isolation from the world they inhabited. Written with remarkable clarity and an unmistakable wit, the work surveys titans such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and Nietzsche, presenting their ideas with both scholarly rigour and accessible prose that made it a landmark bestseller upon its publication in 1945. Beyond its function as a comprehensive survey, the work stands as a philosophical statement in its own right — Russell's own empiricist and rationalist sympathies colour every chapter, producing a narrative that is as much critical argument as it is historical account. The breadth of intellectual territory covered is staggering, yet Russell never loses the reader in abstraction, instead grounding each movement — from Stoicism to Logical Positivism — in the human drama that surrounded it. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, this volume remains an indispensable cornerstone of any serious reader's library, and one that continues to provoke, challenge, and illuminate in equal measure.