Author: RUSSELL. BERTRAND.
Title: HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY. And its connection with political and social circumstances from the earliest times to the present day.
Description: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. London. 1946. FIRST U. K EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.9 inches). 916pp. A neat previous owner name to the front pastedown endpaper, otherwise a lovely clean copy bound in the original publishers oatmeal cloth with brown and yellow stamped lettering panels to the spine. In the original dustwrapper, which was printed on re-used war-time paper with a colour map printed on verso. The wrapper has been neatly price clipped on the inside front flap and there is some minor loss to the top edge of the spine and toning to the rear panel but overall it is very good. ------- A very nice copy of Russell's hugely popular history, broadly covering covering philosophers and philosophical thought from the Pre-Socratics up to John Dewey and William James, and finishing with Logical Analysis. Russell won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1950, with the Nobel committee listing this title among the works that influenced their decision. While criticised by some as being too general, many found the book an accessible and easily readable introduction to Philosophy and it became a best seller which has not been out of print since.

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