Philosophic Classics, #5: Twentieth Century Philosophy

by Forrest E. Baird (editor)

Designed to be accessible to today's readers, this anthology of readings in twentieth-century philosophical classics includes recent European and American philosophers and texts that are presently seen as classics or as emerging classics. It features the best available translations of texts-- complete works or complete selections of works --which are both central to each philosopher's thought and are widely accepted as part of the “canon.” The selections are readable and accessible, while still being faithful to the original. Includes Introductions to each philosopher, and an abundance of drawings, diagrams, photographs, and a timeline. KEY Husserl, Gadamer, Adorno, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida, Irigaray, Habermas, Whitehead, Du Bois, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Quine, Austin, Davidson, Rorty, Putnam, Taylor. For anyone interested in 20th-century European and American philosophy.

Genres: Philosophy

439 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[T. J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this text-- simply as a reference material. Really helps for all of those Existential and Phenomenological questions you have kicking around. I would recommend this text to anyone who can't recall all they learned in Dr. Cooney's 20th century philosophy class at Centre College or maybe another 20th century philosophy class you took elsewhere. All around one of six or seven useful philosophy anthologies from undergrad I still use-- surprisingly routinely.