Fifty thinkers who shaped the modern world

324 Pages·2012·1.5 MB·English

by  Trombley

FIFTY THINKERS WHO SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD
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For Peg Culver
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
Contents
Introduction
1. Immanuel Kant
(1724–1804)
2. John Stuart Mill
(1806–73)
3. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
(1762–1814)
4. G. W. F. Hegel
(1770–1831)
5. Auguste Comte
(1798–1857)
6. Henry David Thoreau
(1817–62)
7. Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
(1804–72)
8. Charles Darwin
(1809–82)
9. Søren Kierkegaard
(1813–55)
10. Karl Marx
(1818–83)
11. Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788–1860)
12. C. S. Peirce
(1839–1914)
13. William James
(1842–1910)
14. Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900)
15. F. H. Bradley
(1846–1924)
16. Gottlob Frege
(1848–1925)
17. Sigmund Freud
(1856–1939)
18. Émile Durkheim
(1858–1917)
19. Henri Bergson
(1859–1941)
20. Edmund Husserl
(1859–1938)
21. John Dewey
(1859–1952)