Abstract

A reference work containing summaries of all major and most minor figures in the history of Western philosophy. The summaries are concise, informative, and well-written. Bibliography and some biographical material are included. One might quarrel over accent—e.g., James and Peirce together are allotted fewer pages than some exceedingly and properly obscure church fathers. However, all important movements and modes of thought are presented. The interpretations and evaluations of the phenomenological movement seem in general a degree more knowledgeable than those of the positivist and linguistic analysis movements.—G. D. D.