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The Dream of Reason: A History Of Philosophy From The Greeks To The Renaissance

by Anthony Gottlieb · 2000

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Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy, "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times). A New York TimesNotable Book, a Los Angeles TimesBest Book, and a Times Literary SupplementBest Book of 2001.

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