{"product_id":"an-illustrated-brief-history-of-western-philosophy-20th-anniversary-edition-isbn-9781119452799","title":"An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, 20th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 \u003ci\u003eA History of Western Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e to offer a concise single-author review of the complete history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the modern masters of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century, Kenny's work fills a critical gap in the modern philosophy reading list and offers valuable guidance for the general reader of philosophy—an ideal starting point for anyone with an interest in great thinkers and the family lines of philosophical evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWidely considered to be one of the most thorough and accessible historical reviews in philosophy, \u003ci\u003eAn Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e has earned an estimable and distinctive reputation, both for the compelling writing style of Anthony Kenny, one of the most respected and accomplished living philosophers, and for the rich collection of paintings, illustrations, maps, and photos included with every chapter to complement this review of 2,500 years of philosophical thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNewly revised and expanded for a special 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e anniversary publication, the latest edition of \u003ci\u003eAn Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e contains all of Kenny's original writings on the history of Western philosophy from ancient to modern, along with new writings on the philosophy of the mid-20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century, covering important contributions from continental philosophers and philosophers of the post-Wittgenstein anglophone tradition, including the work of many women who have too often been neglected by the historical record.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI PHILOSOPHY IN ITS INFANCY 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Milesians 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXenophanes 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeraclitus 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe School of Parmenides 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmpedocles 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Atomists 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII THE ATHENS OF SOCRATES 20\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Athenian Empire 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnaxagoras 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sophists 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocrates 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eEuthyphro\u003c\/i\u003e 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCrito\u003c\/i\u003e 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ePhaedo\u003c\/i\u003e 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO 36\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife and Works 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Theory of Ideas 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato’s \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eTheaetetus\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSophist\u003c\/i\u003e 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV THE SYSTEM OF ARISTOTLE 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato’s Pupil, Alexander’s Teacher 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Foundation of Logic 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Theory of Drama 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Philosophy: Virtue and Happiness 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Philosophy: Wisdom and Understanding 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitics 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience and Explanation 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWords and Things 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMotion and Change 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoul, Sense, and Intellect 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetaphysics 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV GREEK PHILOSOPHY AFTER ARISTOTLE 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hellenistic Era 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpicureanism 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStoicism 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScepticism 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRome and its Empire 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus of Nazareth 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity and Gnosticism 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeo-Platonism 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI EARLY CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY 102\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArianism and Orthodoxy 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Theology of Incarnation 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Life of Augustine 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe City of God and the Mystery of Grace 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoethius and Philoponus 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn the Scot 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlkindi and Avicenna 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Feudal System 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaint Anselm 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbelard and Héloïse 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbelard’s Logic 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbelard’s Ethics 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAverroes 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaimonides 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIII PHILOSOPHY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Age of Innovation 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaint Bonaventure 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThirteenth-Century Logic 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas’ Life and Works 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas’ Natural Theology 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatter, Form, Substance, and Accident 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas on Essence and Existence 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas’ Philosophy of Mind 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAquinas’ Moral Philosophy 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIX OXFORD PHILOSOPHERS 154\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fourteenth-Century University 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuns Scotus 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham’s Logic of Language 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOckham’s Political Theory 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Oxford Calculators 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Wyclif 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY 171\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Renaissance 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFree-will: Rome vs. Louvain 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRenaissance Platonism 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMachiavelli 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore’s Utopia 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformation 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-Reformation Philosophy 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBruno and Galileo 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrancis Bacon 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXI THE AGE OF DESCARTES 194\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wars of Religion 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Life of Descartes 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Doubt and the \u003ci\u003eCogito\u003c\/i\u003e 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Essence of Mind 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod, Mind, and Body 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Material World 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXII ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHobbes’ Political Philosophy 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Political Theory of John Locke 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocke on Ideas and Qualities 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubstances and Persons 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV 224\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlaise Pascal 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpinoza and Malebranche 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeibniz 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIV BRITISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 237\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBerkeley 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHume’s Philosophy of Mind 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHume on Causation 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReid and Common Sense 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXV THE ENLIGHTENMENT 251\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ePhilosophes\u003c\/i\u003e 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRousseau 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolution and Romanticism 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXVI THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF KANT 259\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKant’s Copernican Revolution 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendental Aesthetic 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendental Analytic: The Deduction of the Categories 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendental Analytic: The System of Principles 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendental Dialectic: The Paralogisms of Pure Reason 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies of Pure Reason 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendental Dialectic: The Critique of Natural Theology 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKant’s Moral Philosophy 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXVII GERMAN IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM 280\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFichte 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHegel 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarx and the Young Hegelians 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapitalism and its Discontents 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXVIII THE UTILITARIANS 290\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeremy Bentham 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Utilitarianism of J. S. Mill 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMill’s Logic 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIX THREE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS 301\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchopenhauer 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKierkegaard 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNietzsche 310\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXX THREE MODERN MASTERS 313\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Darwin 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Henry Newman 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigmund Freud 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXXI LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS 329\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrege’s Logic 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrege’s Logicism 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrege’s Philosophy of Logic 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRussell’s Paradox 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRussell’s Theory of Descriptions 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogical Analysis 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXXII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 342\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenri Bergson 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHusserl’s Phenomenology 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Existentialism of Heidegger 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Existentialism of Sartre and de Beauvoir 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXXIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF WITTGENSTEIN 356\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTractatus Logico-Philosophicus\u003c\/i\u003e 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogical Positivism 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXXIV RECENT CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY 372\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Frankfurt School 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Derrida 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJurgen Habermas 382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXXV RECENT ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 388\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Anscombe 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW. V. O. Quine 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonald Davidson 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter Geach 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter Strawson 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Metaphysics 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cartesian Revival 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalytical Ethics 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Rawls 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Rorty 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 409\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 421\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANTHONY KENNY\u003c\/b\u003e has held many prestigious titles over the course of his career, including Master of Balliol College, Oxford; Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford; President of the British Academy; President of the Royal Institute of Philosophy; and Chair of the Board of the British Library. With over fifty books published in his career, his most recent works are \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment: A Very Short History\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eBrief Encounters,\u003c\/i\u003e to be published in September 2018.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Previous Editions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A richly detailed, critical look at philosophy, displaying both Kenny's love for philosophical engagement and for good history...Kenny's style is unpretentious, effective, and at times wonderfully informal and amiable.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReview of Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"…lucidly written with enough humour to cheer up the educated general reader even in the midst of the most arid of philosophical discussions.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is simply a jolly good read, with pithy historical and biographical scene-setters, authoritative accounts of how successive philosophers have contributed to the development of Western thought, and often brilliant single-sentence summaries.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChurch Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. 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