| From Empedocles to Wittgentstein Contributor(s): Kenny, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199550824 ISBN-13: 9780199550821 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Medieval |
| Dewey: 190 |
| LCCN: 2008016743 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (1.00 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Empedocles to Wittgenstein is a collection of fifteen historical essays in philosophy, written by Sir Anthony Kenny in the early years of the 21st century. In the main they are concerned with four of the great philosophers whom he most esteems, namely Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein. The author is not only one of the most respected historians of philosophy, and possibly the widest-ranging, but also one of the most successful at writing on the subject for a broad readership. In this volume he presents scholarly explorations of some themes which caught his interest as he worked on his acclaimed four-volume New History of Western Philosophy. |