The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780415299367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 1024 str.

Dermot Moran

Opis

The 20th century was one of the most significant periods ever witnessed in philosophy, characterized by intellectual change and development on a massive scale. This title is an authoritative survey and assessment of the century as a whole.

Recenzje

'This unique collection succeeds on all fronts. Summing up: Essential.' - CHOICE

'The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy sets itself the Herculean task of surveying the philosophy of a whole century which saw the rise and fall of many powerful philosophical movements, movements which were themselves inspired by such giants as Carnap, Dewey, Husserl, Sartre and Wittgenstein, and of doing justice to those movements and those giants, without being either uncritically bland or inappropriately partisan, and, marvelous to relate, it succeeds. This will be a wonderful introduction to philosophy for the student and an indispensable addition to the library of the teacher of philosophy.' - Hilary Putnam, Harvard University, USA

'It is hard to imagine a more useful, comprehensive or distinguished collection of essays on Western philosophy in the twentieth century. For anyone looking for an authoritative overview of the current state of the subject and its recent history this is where to find it.' - Quassim Cassam, University of Cambridge, UK

'Philosophy is reflectively self-conscious. Distinctive among departments of thought, it absorbs its own meta-discipline. This outstanding volume is meta-philosophy of a high order: a welcome, expert review of the course of our discipline in the century just ended.' - Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University, USA

O autorze

Dermot Moran holds the Chair of Philosophy at University College Dublin and is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena, Introduction to Phenomenology, and Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology. He has co-edited The Phenomenology Reader, Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, and Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Philosophical Studies.