Publisher's Synopsis
'A monumental history . . . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive.'
NEW STATESMAN
'We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain.'
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French Philosophy
Copleston's ninth volume of his A History of Philosophy masterfully takes in over 150 years of French thought from the French Revolution to the mid-twentieth century. From the ideologists, to positivists such as Comte, to the singular work of Bergson, to philosophers of science, religion and politics, to Sartre's existentialism, and finally to the beginning of the dramatic and controversial changes that developed in French post-war philosophy with phenomenology and structuralism. Bergson Camus Comte de Biran Lévi-Strauss Sartre