Books written by Anthony Gottlieb

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  The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

  A cat is a substance, in this special philosophical sense, but its smile is not, because a smile cannot exist without a cat or some other creature with a face, except in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. As we have seen, ...

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  The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

  V. E. Watts, Penguin, 1969, p. 47). p. 388 Grant, Father . . . Boethius, ibid., III, ix (p. 97). p. 389 my servant Plato. Boethius, ibid., I, iii (p. 39). p. 392 a single argument . . . St Anselm, Proslogion, Preface (trans. in Medieval ...

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  The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

  The author re-examines the basic assumptions of philosophical thought from the pre-Socratic philosophers to Erasmus.

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  The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

  Now, in his sequel, The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science.

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  The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (New Edition)

  The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy, "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times).

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  The Dream of Reason: A History Of Philosophy From The Greeks To The Renaissance

  The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy, "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times).

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  Dream of Reason

  Written with both wit and scholarship, 'The Dream of Reason' provides an overall picture of Western philosophy up to the Renaissance

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  The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy

  Already a classic in its first year of publication, this landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom.

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  The Great Philosophers: Socrates

  'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.