{"product_id":"the-blackwell-guide-to-the-modern-philosophers-isbn-9780631210177","title":"The Blackwell Guide to the Modern Philosophers","description":"This guide brings together eighteen original interpretations of the modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. The contributors succeed brilliantly in placing their figures within a rich historical, cultural, and philosophical context, noting some of the important ways in which their ideas and arguments were shaped by the intellectual currents of the time, and how they in turn shaped subsequent philosophical debate. \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 René Descartes (1596-1650) 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Hatfield \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 28\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA. P. Martinich \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) 43\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDon Garrett \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) 61\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteven Nadler \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) 78\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonald Rutherford \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 John Locke (1632-1704) 101\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartha Brandt Bolton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 George Berkeley (1685-1753) 127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge Pappas \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 David Hume (1711-76) 148\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Fate Norton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Thomas Reid (1710-96) 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eErnest Sosa and James Van Cleve \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Jean – Jacques Rousseau (1712-88) 201\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eN. J. H. Dent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Immanuel Kant (1724-18047) 223\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatricia Kitcher \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) 259\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoss Harrison \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) 278\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Houlgate \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Søren Kiekegaard (1813-55) 306\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eC. Stephen Evans \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) 326\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Janaway \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 John Stuart Mill (1806-73) 343\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWendy Donner and Richard Fumerton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Karl Marx (1818-83) 370\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTerrell Carver \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 390\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Schacht \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 415\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Steven Emmanuel has done an impressive job of assembling a distinguished group of authors who give us a very helpful guide to the modern philosophers. With an eye to bringing us 'up to speed' on the more recent scholarship, the contributors provide a timely, readable, and highly worthwhile collection.\" \u003ci\u003eJohn Fischer, University of California, Riverside\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderful resource! It provides a valuable service by drawing on experts for eminently clear and engaging narratives. I expect to refer to it often.\" \u003ci\u003eM. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a worthy acquisition.\" \u003ci\u003eR.H. Nash, Reformed Theological Seminary, Choice, January 2001\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A superb volume...Each essay is clearly written, with most or all jargon carefully explained. By far this book's greatest asset...is the extraordinary way in which Emmanuel gets the different authors to provide, as if in concert, a chronological development of the main ideas of the period. Emmanuel's beautiful volume can, I think, very richly supplement a student's exposure to the period for those figures whose work receives little or no space on the syllabus.\" \u003ci\u003ePatrick Mooney, John Carroll University, THES, 1\/6\/01\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSteven M. Emmanuel\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is author of \u003ci\u003eKierkegaard \u0026amp; the Concept of Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e (1996).  This guide brings together eighteen original interpretations of the modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. The contributors succeed brilliantly in placing their figures within a rich historical, cultural, and philosophical context, noting some of the important ways in which their ideas and arguments were shaped by the intellectual currents of the time, and how they in turn shaped subsequent philosophical debate. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each chapter focuses on the central ideas and arguments of an individual philosopher, with discussions ranging over a wide variety of topics, including morality, politics, religion, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, logic, mathematics, and the natural sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Combining the virtues of careful scholarship and lucid exposition, these essays achieve a balance between intellectual history and philosophical analysis that is rarely found in collections of this kind. Thus, although the volume is eminently suitable for a student audience, the essays will certainly be of great interest to scholars who work in the field of modern philosophy or whose work encompasses intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990173991141,"sku":"NP9780631210177","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631210177.jpg?v=1761786787","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-blackwell-guide-to-the-modern-philosophers-isbn-9780631210177","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}