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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Excellent survey:

Delacampagne's survey of this century's major philosophical thinkers is impressive in its breadth. The author effectively integrates the ideas of each era and sometime sacrifices chronology to present threads of influence through the century. At times, the author seems oversympathetic to the left; he spends more space on them and is less critical of their ideas. He is not fawning towards the left, however, so he did not entirely lose credibility with me.

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20th century philosophy:

An unusually lucid exposition of 20th century events in philosophy, logic, and politically related events. Extremely wide scope - there is nothing significant that is not in the index. I read French and this is a flawless translation.

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