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The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books by James Garvey (2006, UK-Trade Paper, Digital original)

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From Plato to Popper, Descartes to Wittgenstein, this essential guide profiles the top 20 greatest books in philosophy for those who have just never quite found the time to read them.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826490549
ISBN-13
9780826490544
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54368106

Product Key Features

Author
James Garvey
Publication Name
Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books
Format
Uk-Trade PAPER
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
6.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
B72.G34 2006
Edition Description
Digital Original
Reviews
To come from Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, Anthony O'Hear (Director, Royal Institute of Philosophy), Ted Honderich, Tim Crane, "Garvey's Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books cuts through the musty mystique of such great thinkers as Plato, Descartes and Kant, and explains some of the thinking behind their great books. He suggests philosophers are fun people prone to being arrested, poisoned, exiled or ending up running for their lives just because of what they think. His discussions are fresh and appealing, and his chosen books are resonant with relevance." - South China Morning Post, "Any collection strong in philosophy, especially at the introductory and high school level, should have a copy of The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books on the shelf: it covers the works of Descartes, Hobbes, Plato, Sartre and others and reviews the major points of these philosophers, surveying their works, thinking, and influence on fellow philosophers and the course of the genre as a whole. A top pick for any beginner who would build a definitive foundation of philosophy titles." - Midwest Book Review, California Bookwatch, James Garvey's lucid, elegant and insightful book should be read by anybody who wants to know how the great books of philosophy have shaped the history of the discipline., "[Garvey's] distillations are master classes in concisions, clarity and accuracy. He doesn't make it all look easy, just no more difficult than it need be, which is more than can be said of many of the original authors under discussion...For prospective students and complete beginners, the book is an excellent introduction to the kind of texts they are going to have to tackle directly sooner or later....Garvey seems to understand more deeply, write better and explain more clearly than anyone else." - Julian Baggini, Times Higher Education
Table of Content
1. Plato's Republic 2. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 3. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae4. Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy 5. Hobbes's Leviathan 6. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding 7. Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge 8. Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 9. Rousseau's Social Contract 10. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason 11. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 12. Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation 13. Marx's Communist Manifesto 14. Mill's Utilitarianism 15. Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra 16. Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery 17. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic 18. Sartre's Being and Nothingness 19. de Beauvoir's The Second Sex 20. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
General
Lccn
2007-271442
Dewey Decimal
190
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Philosophy