Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World

by Stephen Trombley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782390928
• ISBN13: 9781782390923
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"