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A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY BY BERTRAND RUSSELL. 916 PAGES. GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN, LONDON.1945. HISTOIRE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE OCCIDENTALE. EN RELATION AVEC LES CIRCONSTANCES POLITIQUES ET SOCIAUX DE L ANTIQUITE JUSQU A NOS JOURS. HISTORIA

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell is a coherent and complete picture of Western philosophy, from antiquity to the present day, which the non-specialist will find easy to understand. Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his championing of the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic. Russell is generally recognized as being one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy This History of Western Philosophy and Its Connections with Political and Social Circumstances is a survey of Western Philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century. There are many Histories of Philosophy in the English and in the German language, quite fewer in French or Spanish, but all those are addressed to specialists or to university students. The work of Bertrand Russell, on the contrary is minded to be accessible to all. The exposition of the different philosophical systems in simple understandable language does not detract in any way from their accuracy and ri

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