Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World - Couverture souple

Trombley, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782390928 ISBN 13 : 9781782390923

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2013

Synopsis

The development of modern thought is traced through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavor since 1789

No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention in this history: the German idealists Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau; Kierkegaard and the existentialists; founders of new fields of inquiry such as Weber, Durkheim, and C.S. Peirce; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein; political leaders from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; and--last but not least--the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian, and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, begetter of the special and general theories of relativity and founder of post-Newtonian physics. This book offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a reevaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Trombley is a writer, editor, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and president of the independent film and television production company Worldview Pictures. He is the author of A History of Western Thought and the former editor of the highly acclaimed The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782390928
• ISBN 13: 9781782390923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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