English-language philosophy, 1750 to 1945 / John Skorupski.

English-language philosophy, 1750 to 1945 / John Skorupski.

9780192891921 (pbk.)
0192891928 (pbk.)
9780192192110
0192192116

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

English

xiv, 233 pages ; 21 cm.

B803 .S54 1993

190

From the end of the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century philosophy took fascinating and controversial paths whose relevance to contemporary post-modernist thought is becoming ever clearer. This volume traces the English-language side of the period, while also taking into account those continental thinkers who deeply influenced twentieth-century English-language philosophy. The story begins with Reid, Coleridge, and Bentham - who set the agenda for much that followed - and continues with a portrait of the nineteenth century's greatest British philosopher, John Stuart Mill. It then surveys the cross-currents of thought at the end of the century, including American pragmatism, a movement never more influential than now. Finally, it assesses two phases of what John Skorupski calls 'analytic modernism' - the revolution against idealism of Moore and Russell, and the Viennese sequel whose project was to show that philosophy consists of pseudo-problems.

"An OPUS book"--Ser. t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1260L Lexile

History of Western philosophy ; 6.

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