Great Thinkers A-Z

Bringing together 100 short, accessible snapshots, this text details the people who have shaped western thought, from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the world's leading experts, describe a major thinker's life and work with suggestions for further reading on each one.

Entries include: Adorno, Arendt, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Avicenna, Ayer, Bacon, Baudrillard, de Beauvoir, Benjamin, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Boethius, Brentano, Butler, Camus, Carnap, Chomsky, Churchland, Cixous, Collingwood, Comte, Craik, Croce, Darwin, Davidson, Deleuze, Dennett, Descartes, Derrida, Dewey, Dilthey, Duns Scotus, Einstein, Foucault, Frege, Freud, Gadamer, Godel, Habermas, Hayek, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, Irigaray, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kripke, Kristeva, Kuhn, Leibniz, Levinas, Lewis, Locke, Machiavelli, MacIntyre, Marx, Macmurray, Merleau-Ponty, Mill, Montaigne, Moore, Nagel, Negri, Nietzsche, Nozick, Nussbaum, Paine, Pascal, Peirce, Plato, Plotinus, Popper, Putnam, Pythagoras, Quine, Rawls, Rorty, Rousseau, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Searle, Seneca, Sidgwick, Singer, Socrates, Spinoza, Taylor, Turing, Vico, Weil, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Zeno

Adorno
Arendt
Aquinas
Aristotle
Augustine
Avicenna
Ayer
Bacon
Baudrillard
de Beauvoir
Benjamin
Bentham
Bergson
Berkeley
Boethius
Brentano
Butler
Camus
Carnap
Chomsky
Churchland
Cixous
Collingwood
Comte
Craik
Croce
Darwin
Davidson
Deleuze
Dennett
Descartes
Derrida
Dewey
Dilthey
Duns Scotus
Einstein
Foucault
Frege
Freud
Gadamer
Godel
Habermas
Hayek
Hegel
Heidegger
Hobbes
Hume
Husserl
Irigaray
James
Kant
Kierkegaard
Kripke
Kristeva
Kuhn
Leibniz
Levinas
Lewis
Locke
Machiavelli
MacIntyre
Marx
MacMurray
Merleau-Ponty
Mill
Montaigne
Moore
Nagel
Negri
Nietzsche
Nozick
Nussbaum
Paine
Pascal
Peirce
Plato
Plotinus
Popper
Putnam
Pythagoras
Quine
Rawls
Rorty
Rousseau
Russell
Santayana
Sartre
Schopenhauer
Searle
Seneca
Sidgwick
Singer
Socrates
Spinoza
Taylor
Turing
Vico
Weil
Whitehead
Wittgenstein
Zeno.