Abstract

“The critical acclaim which greeted the first edition of A Hundred Years of Philosophy showed that John Passmore had achieved what was long thought impossible – a history of modern ideas in knowledge, logic and metaphysics which was both stimulating to the specialist and intelligible to the general reader. This edition contains much new material, including expanded discussions of Ayer, Popper, Wittgenstein and Sartre, enlarged sections on Austin, Jaspers and Heidegger, an examination of Merleau – Ponty’s phenomenology and a final chapter on recent developments.”- Publisher.