Description
Surveys main currents in Western thought through eight centuries.
From the medieval worldview to the modern outlook, this work presents a sweeping intellectual history in one volume. The emphasis is on ideas in their historical setting, on how modes of thought emerge, grow, influence and react to one another, and die. The result is a grand synthesis of the main currents in western thought, bringing together religion, philosophy, politics, science, economics, literature and the arts, and the social and behavioral sciences- all the diverse systems man has devised in his effort to understand, interpret, and shape human experience.
About the Author
John Herman Randall, Jr., is Frederick J. E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University. He is the author of many works in philosophy and intellectual history, among them Aristotle, The Career of Philosophy, Vols. I and II, How Philosophy Uses its Past, Nature and Historical Experience and Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Volume III, and Other Essays, all published by Columbia University Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231041430
Author John Herman Randall
Format Paperback
Page Count 696
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
From the medieval worldview to the modern outlook, this work presents a sweeping intellectual history in one volume. The emphasis is on ideas in their historical setting, on how modes of thought emerge, grow, influence and react to one another, and die. The result is a grand synthesis of the main currents in western thought, bringing together religion, philosophy, politics, science, economics, literature and the arts, and the social and behavioral sciences- all the diverse systems man has devised in his effort to understand, interpret, and shape human experience.
About the Author
John Herman Randall, Jr., is Frederick J. E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University. He is the author of many works in philosophy and intellectual history, among them Aristotle, The Career of Philosophy, Vols. I and II, How Philosophy Uses its Past, Nature and Historical Experience and Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Volume III, and Other Essays, all published by Columbia University Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231041430
Author John Herman Randall
Format Paperback
Page Count 696
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
