About this title: Using historical and contemporary sources to augment his survey, Gottlieb discussed the evolution of man's search for meaning. Gottlieb's history is original, putting emphasis on the contextual growth of many philosophical concepts, though he covers only Greek to Renaissance thought. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2001
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2002-11
ISBN-13:9780393323658ISBN:039332365X
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Edition: First Paperback
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co., NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780393323658ISBN:039332365X
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Edition: First American Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393049510ISBN:0393049515
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN-13:9780393323658ISBN:039332365X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2002
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"I like philosophy, which I discovered in first year university, which I followed up with many more classes... So this book was in my field of interest."
"For some reason I've always felt essentially uneducated because I didn't have a "classical education". I didn't learn Latin or Greek (though I worked a fair way through a Teach Yourself Latin book once when I was reading Ulysses and felt my lack most particularly). I never studied Greek or Roman history either after high school. My interests tended to be contemporary and American. I also only remember taking one philosophy class and it was not very memorable. I've read some Plato and Aristotle, The Iliad and the Odyssey and a fair number of Greek plays. I want to read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire but I started it and was lost because I had so little background (though I could see the writing was superb-no wonder it's lasted so long.). Hence my interest in this book.
It's well written and even humorous in spots; Gottlieb doesn't stand in awe of classical philosophy as a subject or of classical writers because they're classical. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know whether he treats them fairly. It made sense to me. I note that Amazon reviewers rate the book either 5 or 1 which means it's probably a book worth looking at, certainly by non-specialists. I was least interested in the pre-Socratics though and most interested, modernist that I am, in the last chapter, called The Haven of Piety: From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. It was particularly interesting to see how increasingly western philosophy had to "accommodate itself" to Christianity. The themes were not all that different from controversies which have been raging ever since, no matter how often they were put to rest, like whether the world was created all at once by God or existed or evolved independently.
Two things this book reminded me of particularly. First that philosophy first embraced all learning and only later separated itself out into first philosophy and theology and later into literature and science and history and mathematics, etc. etc. It was particularly interesting to see the evolution of science out of what was called "natural philosophy" and to discover that pre-Socratic philosophers first came up with the "atomistic theory"-a crude hypothesis about the "tiny particles" that made up all matter. Secondly, it reminded me that in the period that we call the "Dark Ages" in Europe, much of the learning of the classical period was preserved and advanced by Arab scholars. It's so easy to forget, in today's focus on fundamental Islamist politics that glorious period of academic brilliance in the Arab world"
"I read several positive reviews when the book was first released. Digital audio affords me the portability and convenience to make time for it. The story of philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the Renaissance. I enjoyed the author's choice of highlights, asides and comparison of various schools."
"It took a long time to troop through this one. It's not that the book is uninteresting, but that the topic is a little dry. Any history of thought takes a similar tack.
...A long time ago, there was an idea. It was wrong. So a new idea was developed. It was wrong. So then there was another idea. Etc, etc, until we catch up to today.
A good history of thought is not the right place to go to discover good thinking (unless you skip right to the final chapter).
What is less fun is that this book stops at the Renaissance. So to get to the punchline, I've got to go through the second volume. Arghh."
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