Description: "His book...supplant[s] all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell."--A. C. Grayling
Brief description: Anthony Gottlieb is the author of The Dream of Reason, a former executive editor of The Economist, and has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University and All Souls College, Oxford. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times.
Review Quotes: A delight. It is written with both wit and scholarship, providing a wonderful overall picture of Western philosophy up to the Renaissance.--Sir Roger Penrose