The Mentor Philosophers
Book Series
The Mentor Philosophers was a series of six books each covering a period of philosophical thought, published by the New American Library. Each book was edited by an esteemed contemporary philosophy academic and contained analysis of a group of philosophers from a chosen period.
The series was very influential during the 1950s and 1960s, and was considered innovative, in its time, for "expanding...the realm of serious reading" available in a paperback-book format[1]. Literary historian Gilbert Highet called it a "very important and interesting series".
Title | Year published | Editor | Subjects | Time period |
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The Age of Belief | 1954 | Anne Fremantle | St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, Erigena, Anselm, Abelard, Bonaventure, Averroes | Medieval Philosophers |
The Age of Adventure | 1956 | Giorgio de Santillana | Nicholas of Cusa, Da Vinci, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Martin Luther, Albrecht Dürer, Copernicus, Montaigne, Kepler, Jakob Böhme, Galileo, Richard Hakluyt, Giordano Bruno | Renaissance Philosophers |
The Age of Reason | 1956 | Stuart Hampshire | Francis Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz | 17th century philosophers |
The Age of Enlightenment | 1956 | Isaiah Berlin | John Locke, Voltaire, George Berkeley, David Hume, Thomas Reid, Condillac, La Mettrie, Johann Georg Hamann, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | 18th century philosophers |
The Age of Ideology | 1956 | Henry David Aiken | Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Auguste Comte, Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Ernst Mach, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard | 19th century philosophers |
The Age of Analysis | 1955 | Morton White | Peirce, Whitehead, James, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein, Croce, Bergson, Rudolf Carnap, Sartre, Santayana | 20th century philosophers |
References
- ^ Parke, Mary Eugenia (October 24, 1954). "Facts and Fiction (column)". The Virginian-Pilot. p. 39. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
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