200 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2004. In a wider sense this book is a history of philosophy as an institution, not a set of beliefs. The author presents the view that it might indeed be argued that it is the institutionalization of philosophy that has worked to its disadvantage. Is it not the case that the two greatest philosophers in Britain this century—Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein— had at most a... Read more
Preface, Introduction, 1. THE ANCIENT GREEKS, 2. THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE, 3. THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES, 4. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 5. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 6. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 7. CONCLUSION, Notes, Index
Biography
David W. Hamlyn Birkbeck College
