Book Series in Philosophy
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
New & Published Titles:
Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has been hailed by many as the greatest French thinker of the twentieth century. As one of the founding members of the...
ISBN: 978-0-415-36399-0 | Published September 18th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Merleau-PontyJohn Locke
Today, John Locke is recognized as one of the most important and formative philosophical influences on the modern world. His imprint is still felt in...
ISBN: 978-0-415-35054-9 | Published July 31st 2006 by Routledge.
more information about John LockeGottlob Frege
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) taught at the University of Jena for thirty years, and was scarcely known outside a small circle of professional mathematicians and philosophers....
ISBN: 978-0-415-30601-0 | Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge.
more information about Gottlob FregeEdmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl was the founding father of phenomenology and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.This collection will make available, in one...
ISBN: 978-0-415-28956-6 | Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Edmund HusserlEmmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has influenced a wide range of intellectuals, from French thinkers...ISBN: 978-0-415-31049-9 | Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Emmanuel LevinasKarl Popper
Born in Austria, Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. A ground-breaking thinker, he saw the essence of...ISBN: 978-0-415-18041-2 | Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.
more information about Karl PopperDerrida
The value of these volumes lies not only in the fact that it will make many well-known essays easily available, but also that it will...ISBN: 978-0-415-23581-5 | Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about DerridaKierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is widely recognized as a leading figure in the Western tradition of philosophy. Especially well known are his seminal contributions to existentialism,...ISBN: 978-0-415-23586-0 | Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about KierkegaardLudwig Wittgenstein
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Second Series
Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to...ISBN: 978-0-415-14918-1 | Published November 15th 2001 by Routledge.
more information about Ludwig WittgensteinSpinoza
Benedict de Spinoza [1632-1677] is among the most fascinating and the most controversial of Western philosophers. These volumes provide a comprehensive selection of high quality...ISBN: 978-0-415-18618-6 | Published May 3rd 2001 by Routledge.
more information about SpinozaDeleuze and Guattari
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
The ideas of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and activist analyst Felix Guattari are transforming disciplinary practices across the humanities and social sciences.These three volumes gather...
ISBN: 978-0-415-18669-8 | Published October 19th 2000 by Routledge.
more information about Deleuze and GuattariAristotle
Critical Assessments
The works of Aristotle are central to the Western philosophical tradition, and scholarship on Aristotle, especially in English, has burgeoned enormously in the last forty...ISBN: 978-0-415-14884-9 | Published May 13th 1999 by Routledge.
more information about Aristotle
Bertrand Russell
Critical Assessments
The literature surrounding Russell is daunting and the thousands of books and articles written about Russell reflect his massive influence. This set offers the reader...ISBN: 978-0-415-13054-7 | Published October 8th 1998 by Routledge.
more information about Bertrand RussellNietzsche
Critical Assessments
Nietzsche: Critical Assessments collects together the very best scholarship available on Nietzsche's multi-dimensional thought.Nietzsche's writings are now considered seminal to a number of scholarly disciplines,...ISBN: 978-0-415-13561-0 | Published July 2nd 1998 by Routledge.
more information about NietzschePlato: Critical Assessments
The philosophy of Plato, universally acknowledged as the most important thinker of the Ancient World, is a major focus of contemporary attention - not only...ISBN: 978-0-415-12605-2 | Published March 12th 1998 by Routledge.
more information about Plato: Critical AssessmentsSocrates
Critical Assessments
This four volume set is a collection of some of the most significant scholarship published on the philosophy of Socrates in the last half century....ISBN: 978-0-415-10968-0 | Published December 5th 1996 by Routledge.
more information about SocratesDavid Hume
Critical Assessments
These volumes bring together for the first time some of the most important research on the philosophy of David Hume. Hume wrote on a large...ISBN: 978-0-415-02012-1 | Published December 22nd 1994 by Routledge.
more information about David HumeG.W. Leibniz
Critical Assessments
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was one of the seventeenth century's most important thinkers. A philosopher, mathematician and scientist, his work is comparable in scope and...ISBN: 978-0-415-03809-6 | Published November 11th 1993 by Routledge.
more information about G.W. LeibnizJohn Dewey
Critical Assessments
4uring the first half of the century, John Dewey's highly original philosophy exerted an important influence on both academic philosophy and educational thinking in the...ISBN: 978-0-415-05316-7 | Published December 17th 1992 by Routledge.
more information about John DeweyMartin Heidegger
Critical Assessments
This collection of papers is the most comprehensive and international examination of Heidegger's work available. It contains established classic articles, some appearing in English for...ISBN: 978-0-415-04982-5 | Published December 10th 1992 by Routledge.
more information about Martin HeideggerImmanuel Kant
Critical Assessments
This collection brings together many of the most influential criticisms of Kantian philosophy, from his own time to the present day. Volume I is historical,...ISBN: 978-0-415-02143-2 | Published December 10th 1992 by Routledge.
more information about Immanuel KantGeorge Berkeley
Critical Assessments
During the past thirty years Berkeley scholars and commentators have produced a flood of articles and books on almost every aspect and feature of Berkeley's...ISBN: 978-0-415-02092-3 | Published December 5th 1991 by Routledge.
more information about George BerkeleyRene Descartes
Critical Assessments
This anthology brings together many of the more significant contributions to Cartesian scholarship, some of which reach as far back as the 1930's. Altogether, there...ISBN: 978-0-415-02358-0 | Published November 14th 1991 by Routledge.
more information about Rene DescartesLudwig Wittgenstein: Critical Assessments
Philosophical interest in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein is developing at a phenomenal rate. Every year sees a growing number of works devoted to matters...ISBN: 978-0-415-13625-9 | Published March 22nd 1987 by Routledge.
more information about Ludwig Wittgenstein: Critical AssessmentsSeries Details:
Researchers in philosophy who wish to examine all the relevant literature on leading philosophers can experience considerable difficulty in obtaining access to the wide range of journals in which a large proportion of the articles, assessments and commentaries appear.
The Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers series assembles the most important critical literature on selected philosophers, providing scholars and students everywhere with ready access to key articles, which are often difficult or mpossible to obtain.