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Book SynopsisThis guide brings together eighteen original interpretations of the modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. The contributors succeed brilliantly in placing their figures within a rich historical, cultural, and philosophical context, noting some of the important ways in which their ideas and arguments were shaped by the intellectual currents of the time, and how they in turn shaped subsequent philosophical debate.
Trade Review"Steven Emmanuel has done an impressive job of assembling a distinguished group of authors who give us a very helpful guide to the modern philosophers. With an eye to bringing us 'up to speed' on the more recent scholarship, the contributors provide a timely, readable, and highly worthwhile collection."
John Fischer, University of California, Riverside "This is a wonderful resource! It provides a valuable service by drawing on experts for eminently clear and engaging narratives. I expect to refer to it often." M. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia
"This book is a worthy acquisition." R.H. Nash, Reformed Theological Seminary, Choice, January 2001
"A superb volume...Each essay is clearly written, with most or all jargon carefully explained. By far this book's greatest asset...is the extraordinary way in which Emmanuel gets the different authors to provide, as if in concert, a chronological development of the main ideas of the period. Emmanuel's beautiful volume can, I think, very richly supplement a student's exposure to the period for those figures whose work receives little or no space on the syllabus." Patrick Mooney, John Carroll University, THES, 1/6/01
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Preface x
1 René Descartes (1596-1650) 1
Gary Hatfield
2 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 28
A. P. Martinich
3 Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) 43
Don Garrett
4 Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) 61
Steven Nadler
5 G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) 78
Donald Rutherford
6 John Locke (1632-1704) 101
Martha Brandt Bolton
7 George Berkeley (1685-1753) 127
George Pappas
8 David Hume (1711-76) 148
David Fate Norton
9 Thomas Reid (1710-96) 179
Ernest Sosa and James Van Cleve
10 Jean – Jacques Rousseau (1712-88) 201
N. J. H. Dent
11 Immanuel Kant (1724-18047) 223
Patricia Kitcher
12 Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) 259
Ross Harrison
13 G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) 278
Stephen Houlgate
14 Søren Kiekegaard (1813-55) 306
C. Stephen Evans
15 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) 326
Christopher Janaway
16 John Stuart Mill (1806-73) 343
Wendy Donner and Richard Fumerton
17 Karl Marx (1818-83) 370
Terrell Carver
18 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 390
Richard Schacht
Select Bibliography 412
Index 415
