Modern European Philosophers

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Modern European Philosophers presents a comprehensive yet accessible account of the major thinkers and intellectual movements of the modern Western tradition. Examining 21 of the most influential philosophers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, author Wayne P. Pomerleau explores the ideas and dynamic relations of early modern rationalism, early modern empiricism, German idealism, and anti-idealist perspectives in modern European thought. Topically organized chapters examine how influential philosophers engaged with issues concerning epistemology, reality, the divine, human nature, ethical theory, and more. Each chapter focuses on a specific philosopher, including René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Many chapters conclude with a discussion of how women philosophers engaged with particular philosophical issues and contributed to the European intellectual tradition. Containing topic overviews, chapter summaries, biographical information, and a wealth of direct quotations from primary sources, Modern European Philosophers is an excellent primary or supplementary textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of modern philosophy, as well as a valuable resource for general readers with interest in the subject.