Summary
Bertrand Russell: Wisdom of the West
Historical overview of Western philosophy in its social and political framework.
Translated by Marija and Ivan Salečić
Never hesitating to take an unpopular position on controversial social topics, Bertrand Russell wrote more than forty books, many of which are devoted to sociological and educational problems. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951. The book 'Wisdom of the West' will encourage anyone who is gifted with intellectual curiosity. For now, it is the only work that successfully combines descriptive and pictorial contributions with the aim of illuminating man's ideas about himself and the universe. This survey of Western European thought, as well as the means by which it developed, covers the entire progression from the Pre-Socratics through early Christianity, Jewish religious thought, the Dark Ages, and Dante, Bacon, Locke, and on through Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Marx to Sartre, Jaspers, and Wittgenstein, to name but a few.
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