BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 PHILOSOPHY IN THE RENAISSANCE -- THE HUMANISTIC BACKGROUND -- THE IDEAL OF HUMANITAS -- BASIC PRINCIPLES AND ATTITUDES -- HUMANIST THEMES IN RENAISSANCE THOUGHT -- NORTHERN HUMANISM -- HUMANISM AND PHILOSOPHY -- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE -- GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA -- NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI -- EARLY LIFE AND POLITICAL CAREER -- WRITINGS -- JEAN BODIN -- GIORDANO BRUNO -- EARLY LIFE -- WORKS -- FINAL YEARS -- CHAPTER 2 EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY -- THE EMPIRICISM OF FRANCIS BACON -- BACON'S SCHEME -- THE IDOLS OF THE MIND -- THE NEW METHOD -- THE MATERIALISM OF THOMAS HOBBES -- HOBBES'S SYSTEM -- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- THE RATIONALISM OF RENÉ DESCARTES -- DESCARTES'S SYSTEM -- MEDITATIONS -- THE RATIONALISM OF BENEDICT DE SPINOZA -- THE RATIONALISM OF GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ -- CHAPTER 3 PHILOSOPHY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- SOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT -- CLASSICAL BRITISH EMPIRICISM -- JOHN LOCKE -- GEORGE BERKELEY -- DAVID HUME -- NONEPISTEMOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS -- MATERIALISM AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY -- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- IMMANUEL KANT -- CHAPTER 4 THE 19TH CENTURY -- GERMAN IDEALISM -- JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE -- GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY -- THE POSITIVISM OF AUGUSTE COMTE -- THE UTILITARIANISM OF JEREMY BENTHAM AND JOHN STUART MILL -- KARL MARX -- INDEPENDENT AND IRRATIONALIST MOVEMENTS -- ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -- SØREN KIERKEGAARD -- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE -- WILHELM DILTHEY AND HENRI BERGSON -- CHAPTER 5 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY -- JOHN DEWEY AND ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD -- MARXIST THOUGHT -- VLADIMIR ILICH LENIN -- GYÖRGY LUKÁCS AND ANTONIO GRAMSCI -- CRITICAL THEORY -- NON-MARXIST POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- HANNAH ARENDT -- JOHN RAWLS -- CRITIQUES OF PHILOSOPHICAL LIBERALISM.

ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY -- THE FORMALIST TRADITION -- THE INFORMALIST TRADITION -- CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY -- THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF EDMUND HUSSERL AND MARTIN HEIDEGGER -- THE EXISTENTIALISM OF KARL JASPERS AND JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -- CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY SINCE THE 1950S -- THE RELEVANCE OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY -- EARLY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.