Book Series
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
New & Published Titles:
Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has been hailed by many as the greatest French thinker of the twentieth century. As one of the founding members of the…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36399-0 (Routledge)
John Locke
Today, John Locke is recognized as one of the most important and formative philosophical influences on the modern world. His imprint is still felt in…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35054-9 (Routledge)
Gottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) taught at the University of Jena for thirty years, and was scarcely known outside a small circle of professional mathematicians and philosophers.…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30601-0 (Routledge)
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl was the founding father of phenomenology and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.This collection will make available,… read more
2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28956-6 (Routledge)
Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has influenced a wide range of intellectuals, from French thinkers… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31049-9 (Routledge)
Karl Popper
Born in Austria, Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. A ground-breaking thinker, he saw the essence of… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18041-2 (Routledge)
Derrida
The value of these volumes lies not only in the fact that it will make many well-known essays easily available, but also that it will… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-23581-5 (Routledge)
Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is widely recognized as a leading figure in the Western tradition of philosophy. Especially well known are his seminal contributions to existentialism,… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-23586-0 (Routledge)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Second Series
Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-14918-1 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Researchers in philosophy who wish to examine all the relevant literature on leading philosophers can experience considerable difficulty in obtaining access to the wide range of journals in which a large proportion of the articles, assessments and commentaries appear.
The Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers series assembles the most important critical literature on selected philosophers, providing scholars and students everywhere with ready access to key articles, which are often difficult or mpossible to obtain.
Forthcoming Titles:
Richard Rorty
Edited by James Tartaglia
To be published November 27th 2009