The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy

by Jay Stevenson
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Published by: Penguin Group, Inc.
eBook Publish Date: February 04, 2003
Print ISBN: 0028643380
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Socrates's admonition that "the unexamined life is not worth living" still resonates with many people, and this guide is a great introduction to that mental exercise. The author skillfully covers the subject both historically and topically and brings the reader all the way up to the present, with insights into 21st-century philosophical thought.

- Essential philosophers and philosophies, from ancient times right up to today

- New information on such topics as Eastern philosophy, women philosophers, postmodernism, and critical theory

- The relevance of philosophy to a variety of other subjects and to today s world

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Bio of Jay Stevenson

JAY STEVENSON, Ph.D., teaches writing, English literature, and cultural studies at Rutgers University and is the author of five Complete Idiot ' s Guides. He has written for Studies in English Literature 1500 ' 1900 and for the Grinnell Review.