| Description |
viii, 375 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Raymond Aron and the power of ideas -- Plutarch and the issue of character -- "Strange seriousness" : discovering Daumier -- Walter Bagehot : the greatest Victorian -- What's left of Descartes -- Schiller's "education" -- The difficulty with Hegel -- Schopenhauer's worlds -- What did Kierkegaard want -- George Santayana -- Wittgenstein : the philosophical porcupine -- Bertrand Russell : apostle of disillusionment -- Who was David Stove -- Tocqueville today -- Anthony Trollope : a novelist who hunted the fox -- G.C. Lichtenberg : a"spy on humanity" -- The genius of Wodehouse -- The mystery of Charles Péguy. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern.
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| ISBN |
1566634792 alkaline paper |
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