English-Language Philosophy 1750 To 1945 |
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Author:
| Skorupski, John |
Series title: | Opus Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-289192-1 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1993 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $99.95AUD $90.86 |
Book Description:
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From the end of the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century philosophy took fascinating and controversial paths whose relevance to contemporary post-modernist thought is becoming increasingly clear. This volume traces the English-language side of the period, while also taking into account those continental thinkers who deeply influenced twentieth-century English-language philosophy.The story begins with Reid, Coleridge, and Bentham - who set the agenda for much that...
More DescriptionFrom the end of the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century philosophy took fascinating and controversial paths whose relevance to contemporary post-modernist thought is becoming increasingly clear. This volume traces the English-language side of the period, while also taking into account those continental thinkers who deeply influenced twentieth-century English-language philosophy.The story begins with Reid, Coleridge, and Bentham - who set the agenda for much that followed - and continues with a portrait of the nineteenth century's greatest British philosopher, John Stuart Mill. It then surveys the cross-currents of thought at the end of the century, including American pragmatism, a movement never more influential than now. Finally, it assesses two phases of what John Skorupski calls `analytic modernism' - the revolution against the idealism of Moore and Russell, and the Viennese sequel whose project was to show that philosophy consists of pseudo-problems.