# A History of Western Thought

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- Authors: [Stephen Trombley](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-trombley)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-08-5789-874-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-10-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Stephen Trombley’s A History of Western Thought , outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today. No major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes Trombley’s attention: the Christian Scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages, the great philosophers of the Enlightenment, the German idealists from Kant to Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau; Kierkegaard and the existentialists; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead and Wittgenstein; and – last but not least – the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. A History of Western Thought is a masterly distillation of two-and-a-half millennia of intellectual history, and a readable and entertaining crash course in Western philosophy.