Great Thinkers A-Z

Bringing together 100 short, accessible snapshots, this text details the people who have shaped western thought, from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the world's leading experts, describe a major thinker's life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one. Covering philosophers and cultural and scientific thinkers, such as Foucault, Darwin, Einstein and Freud, who have had a major impact on philosophy, this book should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of ideas and in contemporary thought.