جریان‌های بزرگ در تاریخ اندیشه غربی

by Franklin L. Baumer, حسین بشیریه (translator)

این کتاب مجموعه گزیده هایی از تاریخ فکر اروپای غربی از قرون میانه تا زمان حاضر است. به طور کلی تاریخ تفکر غربی در این کتاب به سه دوران بزرگ تقسیم شده است: عصر دین - عصر علم و عصر اضطراب
گزیده های کتاب شامل مطالب فلسفی، اجتماعی، دینی، علمی، هنری، سیاسی، ادبی، روانشناختی، تاریخی و اخلاقی است و کل گسترۀ فکری اروپا را در بر می گیرد.

Genres: Philosophy, History, Nonfiction

996 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Franklin Le Van Baumer (b.1913) was a historian at Yale University.

Reviews

[Acid · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book is great because it compiles the actual works of lucid, powerful, thinking, attempting, achieving, spiritual, scientific, practicle people from the medieval christian world view, through the renaissance, the confessional age into the scientific revolution on up to the present...there are so many great writings in this book that to name them all would take up more space than I want to use at the moment...there are also some contraversal writing from the differant people at differant times...I have learned more from this book than I have from many other history books...I count this an excellent read, but a great study tool and a wonderful piece of compiling for the purposes of a non-fiction western world view... any one want to read this book I have a copy... mike seely and the acid tong...

[Brook Finlayson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the first half of this in a history of philosophy class and have decided to work on the rest over time. The value of this book? These are the primary sources. Instead of reading about Dante, Machiavelli, Descartes, etc., here you read what they wrote. Translations are not always the best or most recent (public domain is cheaper, I'm sure).

[Mohamad · Rating 4 out of 5]

برای درک سیر تحول اندیشه و نظام فکری بشر از قرون وسطی تا اواسط قرن بیستم و پاسخ به این سوال که "چرا ما اینگونه فکر می کنیم؟" فوق العاده مفید بود

[علیرضا کتانی · Rating 5 out of 5]

مقدمه خوبی هست بر تاریخ فلسفه، شاید بهتر از تاریخ فلسفه‌‌های متعارف.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book cover isn't notable. It is deep red fabric with gold lettering on spine and unadorned title impressed into the face.However, this is an impressive book on the inside, one that contributes to our understanding of why we think as we do.
It is organized as ages:
One: age of religion,
Two: age of science,
Three: age of anxiety. [19-20 cent.]
Alfhough it includes somewhat on the French revolution, it ignores the American. Communism & Fascism are each thoroughly covered.
IMO, it has a great defect in not speciifying the temporal spans of each age, nor of the subsections. Each essay is nicely introduced, as, for exanple,with bio info on author, provenance of translation, and temporal/social context of the material.
Many of the anchors of middle-ages thought lie much more anciently. These aren't always clearly highlighted. The key is to understand that much of the thought throughout the book is truly innovative in its era and a serious break from the traditional--inciting great social upheaval.
The "currents" in the title suggests some variety of "flow". This, also, is not presented, tho is somewhat explained in the intro.

[Phillip Tigue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Selections from modern philosophy. Excellent read.