ISBN: 0415325056 9780415325059

Category: History / Reference

Page count: 778

First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophywent on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Timesnoted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophyone of the most important philosophical works of all time.