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Great Thinkers, AGÇôZ 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 worldGÇÖs leading experts, describe a major thinkerGÇÖs life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one. Covering philosophers as well as cultural and scientific thinkersGÇösuch as Foucault, Darwin, Einstein and FreudGÇöwho have had a major impact on philosophy, Great Thinkers, AGÇôZ 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
Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:
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 the author of the international bestseller
Einstein’s Riddle and its sequels.
His writing has also appeared in the
Guardian, the
Chronicle of Higher Education, the
Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere.
He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.
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