Great Thinkers A-Z

by Julian Baggini (Editor), Jeremy Stangroom (Editor)

Overview

Great Thinkers, AZ brings together 100 short, accessible snapshots of the people who have shaped Western thought from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the world's leading experts, describe a major thinker's life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one. Covering philosophers as well as cultural and scientific thinkers such as Foucault, Darwin, Einstein and Freud who have had a major impact on philosophy, Great Thinkers, AZ is the ideal book for anyone interested in the history of ideas and in contemporary thought. Entries include: Adorno, Arendt, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Avicenna, Ayer, Bacon, Baudrillard, de Beauvoir, Benjamin, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Boethius, Brentano, Butler, Camus, Carnap, Chomsky, Churchland, Cixous, Collingwood, Comte, Craik, Croce, Darwin, Davidson, Deleuze, Dennett, Descartes, Derrida, Dewey, Dilthey, Duns Scotus, Einstein, Foucault, Frege, Freud, Gadamer, Godel, Habermas, Hayek, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, Irigaray, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kripke, Kristeva, Kuhn, Leibniz, Levinas, Lewis, Locke, Machiavelli, MacIntyre, Marx, Macmurray, Merleau-Ponty, Mill, Montaigne, Moore, Nagel, Negri, Nietzsche, Nozick, Nussbaum, Paine, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Plotinus, Popper, Putnam, Pythagoras, Quine, Rawls, Rorty, Rousseau, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Searle, Seneca, Sidgwick, Singer, Socrates, Spinoza, Taylor, Turing, Vico, Weil, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Zeno

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826467423
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/15/2004
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Julian Baggini is co-editor (with Jeremy Stangroom) of The Philosophers' Magazine (www.philosophers.co.uk), Great Thinkers A-Z (2004) and New British Philosophy: The Interviews (2002). He is also the author of The Pig That Wants to be Eaten and What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (both Granta, 2005). Jeremy Stangroom is co-editor, with Julian Baggini, of The Philosophers' Magazine and co-author of Do You Think What You Think You Think? (Granta, 2006), What Philosophers Think and Great Thinkers A-Z. He and Ophelia Benson are co-authors of Why Truth Matters and The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (Souvenir, 2004).

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Introduction	1
	Theodor Adorno	19
	St Thomas Aquinas	21
	Hannah Arendt	24
	Aristotle	26
	St Augustine of Hippo	29
	Avicenna	31
	A. J. Ayer	33
	Francis Bacon	36
	Simone de Beauvoir	38
	Walter Benjamin	40
	Jeremy Bentham	43
	Henri Bergson	45
	George Berkeley	47
	Franz Brentano	50
	Joseph Butler	52
	Albert Camus	54
	Rudolf Carnap	56
	Noam Chomsky	59
	Paul Churchland	61
	Helene Cixous	63
	R. G. Collingwood	66
	Auguste Comte	68
	Charles Darwin	71
	Donald Davidson	73
	Gilles Deleuze	75
	Daniel Dennett	78
	Jacques Derrida	80
	Rene Descartes	82
	John Dewey	84
	Wilhelm Dilthey	87
	Albert Einstein	89
	Desiderius Erasmus	91
	Michel Foucault	93
	Gottlob Frege	96
	Sigmund Freud	98
	Hans-Georg Gadamer	100
	Mahatma Gandhi	103
	Kurt Godel	105
	Jurgen Habermas	108
	F. A. Hayek	110
	Georg Hegel	112
	Martin Heidegger	115
	Thomas Hobbes	117
	David Hume	119
	Edmund Husserl	122
	Luce Irigaray	124
	William James	127
	Immanuel Kant	129
	Soren Kierkegaard	132
	Saul Kripke	134
	Thomas Kuhn	136
	Jacques Lacan	139
	Gottfried Leibniz	141
	Emmanuel Levinas	144
	David Lewis	146
	John Locke	148
	Niccolo Machiavelli	151
	Alasdair MacIntyre	153
	Karl Marx	156
	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	158
	John Stuart Mill	160
	Michel de Montaigne	163
	G. E. Moore	165
	Thomas Nagel	167
	Friedrich Neitzsche	170
	Robert Nozick	172
	Martha Nussbaum	174
	Thomas Paine	177
	Blaise Pascal	179
	Charles Peirce	181
	Plato	184
	Plotinus	186
	Karl Popper	188
	Hilary Putnam	190
	Pythagoras	192
	Willard Van Orman Quine	194
	Frank Ramsey	197
	John Rawls	199
	Richard Rorty	201
	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	203
	Bertrand Russell	206
	Gilbert Ryle	208
	George Santayana	210
	Jean-Paul Sartre	212
	Ferdinand de Saussure	214
	F. W. J. Schelling	217
	Arthur Schopenhauer	219
	John Duns Scotus	221
	John Searle	223
	Seneca	226
	Henry Sidgwick	228
	Peter Singer	230
	Socrates	233
	Baruch Spinoza	235
	Charles Taylor	237
	Alan Turing	239
	Giambattista Vico	242
	Simone Weil	244
	A. N. Whitehead	247
	Ludwig Wittgenstein	249
	Chronological Index	253
	Thematic Guides	255
	Notes on Contributors	257
	Index	263

Editorial Reviews

"If you just can't remember what you learned in college about Gottlob Frege or Gilbert Ryle, this is the place to turn for help. The editors' selections are both comprehensive and somewhat idiosyncratic, as they admit in their introduction: not every great thinker is included in the 100 here, but rather the representative of all major schools of thought, from Pythagoras to postmodern. This is not philosophy for dummies Kant will never be simple but the author of each segment boils the thinker's idea's down to a point where they can be fairly well absorbed. Most useful to the student who needs a quick reference on these thinkers and their ideas, this volume also provides lists of suggested reading for those who wish to use it as a starting point for further investigation."--Sanford Lakoff "Publishers Weekly "

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