Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World

For the reader who has lain awake fretting over his tenuous grasp of the Critiques of Immanuel Kant, or his unformed sense of the line of thought that descends from Hegel through Marx to 20th-century Soviet state socialism, or who struggles to call to mind the key strands in the thinking of Edmund Husserl, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida - help is at hand. It comes in the comfortingly accessible form of Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World, a concise history of modern thought from the Enlightenment to the present day. Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World opens with a substantial introduction that outlines the history of human ideas from the philosophers of classical Antiquity to the European eighteenth century, via the Christian scholastics of the Middle Ages and the development of Renaissance thought, culminating in the philosophy of Descartes and the development of scientific method. Having thus set the scene, Stephen Trombley traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. No major representative of any significant strand of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention: the German idealists Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau; Kierkegaard and the existentialists; founder sof new fields of inquiry such as Weber, Durkheim and C.S. Peirce; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead and Wittgenstein; political leaders from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; and - last but not least - the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, begetter of the special and general theories of relativity and founder of post-Newtonian physics Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped The Modern World Profiles Fifty Landmark Philosophers, Scientists, Political And Social Theorists As Well As Spiritual Leaders Whose Ideas Have Defined The Age We Live In. It Offers A Crisp Analysis Of Their Key Ideas, And In Some Cases A Re-evaluation Of Their Importance As We Proceed Into The 21st Century. For The Reader Who Has Lain Awake Fretting Over His Tenuous Grasp Of The Critiques Of Immanuel Kant, Or His Unformed Sense Of The Line Of Thought That Descends From Hegel Through Marx To 20th-century Soviet State Socialism, Or Who Struggles To Call To Mind The Key Strands In The Thinking Of Edmund Husserl, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan And Jacques Derrida - Help Is At Hand. It Comes In The Comfortingly Accessible Form Of Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped The Modern World, A Concise History Of Modern Thought From The Enlightenment To The Present Day. 1. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- 2. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) -- 3. Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) -- 4. G.w.f. [georg Wilhelm Friedrich] Hegel (1770-1831 -- 5. Auguste Comte (1798-1857) -- 6. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- 7. Ludwig Andreas Von Feuerbach (1804-1872) -- 8. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- 9. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) -- 10. Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- 11. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- 12. C. S. [charles Sanders] Peirce (1839-1914) -- 13. William James (1842-1910) -- 14. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- 15. F. H. [francis Herbert] Bradley (1846-1924) -- 16. Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) -- 17. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- 18. Henri Bergson (1859-1941) -- 20. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -- 21. John Dewey (1859-1952) -- 22. George Santayana (1869-1952) -- 23. Max Weber (1864-1920) -- 24. G. E. [george Edward] Moore (1873-1958) -- 25. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). 26. Martin Buber (1878-1965) -- 27. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- 28. José Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955) -- 29. Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) -- 30. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- 31. Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) -- 32. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- 33. Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) -- 34. Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) -- 35. Hans-georg Gadamer (1900-2002) -- 36. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) -- 37. Karl Popper (1902-1994) -- 38. Jean-paul Sartre (1905-1980) -- 39. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) -- 40. Simone De Beauvoir (1908-1986) -- 41. Ferdinand De Saussure (1857-1913) -- 42. A. J. [alfred Jules] Ayer (1910-1989) -- 43. Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) -- 44. Jürgen Habermas (1929- ) -- 45. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) -- 46. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- 47. Noam Chomsky (1928- ) -- 48. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) -- 49. Richard Rorty (1931-2007) -- 50. Julia Kristeva (1941- ) Stephen Trombley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 381 - 392) And Index.

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in.

Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789.

No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention: the German idealists Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau; Kierkegaard and the existentialists; founders of new fields of inquiry such as Weber, Durkheim and C.S. Peirce; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead and Wittgenstein; political leaders from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; and - last but not least - the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, begetter of the special and general theories of relativity and founder of post-Newtonian physics.

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century.

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in. Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention: the German idealists Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau; Kierkegaard and the existentialists; founders of new fields of inquiry such as Weber, Durkheim and C.S. Peirce; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead and Wittgenstein; political leaders from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; and - last but not least - the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, begetter of the special and general theories of relativity and founder of post-Newtonian physics. Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century. 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 1789No 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 of new fields of inquiry such as Weber, Durkheim, and C.S. Peirce; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein; political leaders from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; and--last but not least--the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian, and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, begetter of the special and general theories of relativity and founder of post-Newtonian physics. This book offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a reevaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century.--Provided by the publisher 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 of new fields of inquiry such as Weber, Durkheim, and C.S. Peirce; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein; political leaders from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; and—last but not least—the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian, and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, begetter of the special and general theories of relativity and founder of post-Newtonian physics. This book offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a reevaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century.