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ISBN-10:: 1405106794
ISBN-13:: 9781405106795
Pub. Date:: 10/22/2004
Publisher:: Wiley

ISBN-10:: 1405106794
ISBN-13:: 9781405106795
Pub. Date:: 10/22/2004
Publisher:: Wiley

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The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy

-The style is fresh and engaging, and it gives a broad and accurate picture of the western philosophical tradition. It is a pleasure to browse in, even if one is not looking for an answer to a particular question.—
David Pears

-Its entries manage to avoid the obscurities of an exaggerated brevity without stretching themselves out, as if seeking to embody whole miniature essays. In short it presents itself as a model of clarity and clarification.—
Alan Montefiore

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ISBN-13:	9781405106795
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/22/2004
Pages:	776
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.82(d)

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Nicholas Bunnin is Director of the Philosophy Project, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford. He is the co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, second edition (Blackwell, 2002) and of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (Blackwell, 2002).

Jiyuan Yu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Buffalo. He is the author of The Structureof Being in Aristotle (2003) and The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue (2007), and the co-editor of Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early Medievals (2003).

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"Its entries manage to avoid the obscurities of an exaggerated brevity without stretching themselves out as if seeking to embody whole miniature essays. In short it presents itself as a model of clarity and clarification." Alan Montefiore, Balliol College, Oxford

"The style is fresh and engaging, and it gives a broad and accurate picture of the Western philosophical tradition. It is a pleasure to browse in even if one is not looking for an answer to a particular question." David Pears

"The book makes for interesting browsing, and there is a lot of information to be found in it." Analytic Teaching

"People studying philosophy- at higher levels of school and college and lower levels of university- will find the coverage here highly satisfying. Value for money of the best kind." Reference Reviews

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Philosophy dictionaries are published regularly. In this one, Bunnin, director of the Philosophy Project at Oxford, and Yu (philosophy, SUNY-Buffalo) offer the usual abecedary of philosophical terms, movements, and philosophers. In some cases, a brief illustrative quote follows the definition of a term in a philosopher's biography. Regrettably, the biographies, especially of contemporary philosophers, are so brief as to be unhelpful and lack a philosopher's most important works in the brief bibliography. For example, the entry on Jacques Derrida mentions no work after 1972, failing to take into account his important turn to politics, religion, and morality. In addition, the authors commit some egregious errors. For instance, Hegel never articulated a "triadic dialectic" consisting of the movement from thesis and antithesis to synthesis (an idea that Fichte originated, which the authors, to their credit, do mention in the Fichte entry); rather, it was a dialectic characterized by identity and difference. Kierkegaard was decidedly not the founder of existentialism, as the authors define him; the tendency to associate Kierkegaard with existentialism arose only in the middle of the 20th century. Although most public libraries will want to have a dictionary of philosophy on their shelves, this is not the one to own; look instead to The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy or The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy.-Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Lancaster, PA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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"Its entries manage to avoid the obscurities of an exaggerated brevity without stretching themselves out as if seeking to embody whole miniature essays. In short it presents itself as a model of clarity and clarification." Alan Montefiore, Balliol College, Oxford

"The style is fresh and engaging, and it gives a broad and accurate picture of the Western philosophical tradition. It is a pleasure to browse in even if one is not looking for an answer to a particular question." David Pears

"The book makes for interesting browsing, and there is a lot of information to be found in it." Analytic Teaching

"People studying philosophy- at higher levels of school and college and lower levels of university- will find the coverage here highly satisfying. Value for money of the best kind." Reference Reviews

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