Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Philosophers

by Brown, Stuart; Collinson, Diane; Wilkinson, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780203014479
• ISBN10: 0203014472
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This Biographical Dictionaryprovides detailed accounts of the lives, works, influence and reception of thinkers from all the major philosophical schools and traditions of the twentieth-century. This unique volume covers the lives and careers of thinkers from all areas of philosophy - from analytic philosophy to Zen and from formal logic to aesthetics. All the major figures of philosophy, such as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Russell are examined and analysed. The scope of the work is not merely restricted to the major figures in western philosophy but also covers in depth a significant number of thinkers from the near and far east and from the non-European Hispanic-language communities. The Biographical Dictionaryalso includes a number of general entries dealing with important schools of philosophy, such as the Vienna Circle, or currents of thought, such as vitalism. These allow the reader to set the individual biographies in the context of the philosophical history of the period. With entries written by over 100 leading philosophy scholars, the Biographical Dictionaryis the most comprehensive survey of twentieth-century thinkers to date. Structure The book is structured alphabetically by philosopher. Each entry is identically structured for ease of access and covers: * nationality * dates and places of birth and death * philosophical style or school * areas of interest * higher education * significant influences * main appointments * main publications * secondary literature * account of intellectual development and main ideas * critical reception and impact At the end of the book a glossarygives accounts of the schools, movements and traditions to which these philosophers belonged, and thorough indexesenable the reader to access the information in several ways: * by nationality * by major areas of contribution to philosophy e.g. aesthetics * by major influences on the thinker concerned e.g. Plato, Kant, Wittgenstein

Table of Contents

Acton

Adorno

Althusser

Arendt

Austin

Ayer

Baldwin

Barthes

Bataille

Baudrillard

Bauer

Beauvoir

Benjamin

Berlin

Blondel

Boodin

Boreas

Bukharin

Bulgakov

Camus

Carr

Castaneda

Chomsky

Collingwood

Croce

Daly

Delgado

Derrida

Dewey

Durkheim

Dworkin

Eco

Einstein

Engel

Gellner

Ghandhi

Hampshire

Hayek

Heidegger

Hicks

Hildebrand

Hobhouse

Holt

Hyppolite

Ionescu

Jung

Kenny

Keynes

Kristeva

Lacan

Le Roy

Lenin

Levi

Lévi-Strauss

Lukács

Luxembourg

Lyotard

Mackenzie

Mackie

Macquarrie

Malraux

Mannheim

Mao Zedong

Moore

Moritz

Murdoch

Nagel

Nietzsche

Palmer

Parfit

Pearson

Piaget

Planck

Poincaré

Popper

Quinton

Rand

Rubenstein

Russell

Ryle

Sartre

Schiller

Simmel

Smuts

Sorel

Sosa

Spencer

Spengler

Suzuki

Swinburne

Tagore

Tawney

Tolstoi

Toynbee

Trotsky

Valéry

Weber

Weil

Wittgenstein

Wollheim

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