A Little History of Philosophy is focused on that audience and on anyone else who knows little about philosophy except that it is, as Warburton says, "impenetrable and obscure." The aim of his "little ...

Six years ago, Yale University Press published A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich, which appeared to much acclaim and has by now sold 500,000 copies -- impressive for a trade publisher, ...

A Little History of Philosophy. Description . Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ...

There are many wonderful books that give you a broad sweep of philosophy, such as Nigel Warburton’s A Little History of Philosophy. For a classic that is slightly denser and more demanding, ...

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not ...

A Little History of Philosophy Nigel Warburton. Yale Univ, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-300-15208-1. A readable if unremarkable addition to the increasingly crowded shelves of philosophy primers.

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