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A Concise History of Western Philosophy
From Platonism to Nihilism
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A Concise History of Western Philosophy tells the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche. Mark Anderson presents a series of thought-provoking interpretations of its major figures. Anderson traces western thought through the conflict between the order of Being and the change of Becoming....
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A concise history of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche narrating its gradual decline into nihilism.
A concise history of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche narrating its gradual decline into nihilism.
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A Concise History of Western Philosophy tells the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche. Mark Anderson presents a series of thought-provoking interpretations of its major figures.
Anderson traces western thought through the conflict between the order of Being and the change of Becoming. Identifying Plato as the premiere philosopher of Being and Nietzsche as the peerless advocate of Becoming, the book tracks the transition from a realist worldview to the world of scepticism, relativism, and nihilism we inhabit today.
Travelling from the ancient Greeks to modern nihilists, Anderson explores the thought of Parmenides and Heraclitus; Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham; Descartes, Hume, and Kant. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Platonism, its place in the history of western metaphysics, and its power to help us understand the ethical crisis of our postmodern world.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350555990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 212.0mm
Weight: 207g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Mark Anderson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Director of Classics at Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is the author of Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One (2009) and translator of selections from Platoβs βmythsβ in Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation, edited by Carolina LΓ³pez-Ruiz (2013).
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