Explains, in graphic novel format, the thinking of the most important philosophers in the Western tradition, including Aristotle, Francis Bacon, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Rene Descartes is the 16th century philosopher who perpetually doubted everything--even his own physical existence!

What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience? This book confronts these dilemmas, tracing arguments of moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.

Soren Kierkegaard is widely held to be the founder of existentialism. His faith is ironic, playful and passionate, and he wrote like a novelist. This book brilliantly explains his life and thought.

The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought--Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism.