modern philosophy

Discusses the people, movements, and events behind the theories and ideas that changed the modern world, covering topics in the biological sciences, mathematics and the physical sciences, the arts, the social sciences, philosophy, religion, and politics and the law.

"Traces the development of thought through historical movements and periods from 1500 to 1830"--Provided by publisher.

In graphic novel format looks at the ideas, lives, and times of eighteen seventeenth-century thinkers including Francis Bacon, Voltaire, Sir Issac Newton, and others.

Presents basic writing and selections from the work of Locke, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Condillac, La Mettrie, Hamann, and Lichtenberg.

Uses text and cartoon-style illustrations to introduce the philosophers and philosophic concepts of the postmodern era.

Presents an illustrated introduction to the philosophical thoughts of German thinker Martin Heidegger, highlighting some of Heidegger's central ideas, including the ideas of the "Nothing," care, being-in-the-world, the "One," and "Being.".

Features biographical overviews of some of the most thought-provoking philosophers of the last 2000 years.

Discusses intellectual indulgence, citing good and bad examples of intellectual writing by Western thinkers throughout history and judging them based on the amount of common sense they reflect.

Attempts to explain the philosophy of postmodernism, and looks at what various postmodern thinkers have to say about art and architecture, power and knowledge, the media, time-space compression, and other topics.

Chronicles the development of Western philosophy from antiquity to the twenty-first century, and describes the ideas of some of history's best-known thinkers, including Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle..