Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy
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loginFifty-two years ago Bertrand Russell wrote a one-volume History of Western Philo-sophy, which is still in demand. When it was suggested to me that I might write amodern equivalent, I was at first daunted by the challenge. Russell was one of thegreatest philosophers of the century, and he won a Nobel Prize for Literature: howcould anyone venture to compete? However, the book is not generally regardedas one of Russell’s best, and he is notoriously unfair to some of the greatestphilosophers of the past, such as Aristotle and Kant. Moreover, he operated withassumptions about the nature of philosophy and philosophical method whichwould be questioned by most philosophers at the present time. There does indeedseem to be room for a book which would offer a comprehensive overview of thehistory of the subject from a contemporary philosophical viewpoint.
