Knowledge in a Nutshell: Enlightenment Philosophy: The complete guide to the great revolutionary philosophers, including Rene De

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Includes chapters on the most famous enlightenment philosophers, including Rene Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant.

Jane O'Grady is one of the founders of the London School of Philosophy, and was a Visiting Lecturer and Honorary Fellow at City University. She has taught at the Freud Museum, for the How To Academy and given extra-mural courses at Birkbeck. She co-edited Blackwell's Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations with A. J. Ayer, has several entries in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and has written introductions to Mill's On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, as well as several introductions for Plato's dialogues. She is the philosophy obituarist for the Guardian and she also reviews for the Telegraph, the Literary Review, the Financial Times and the Times Higher Education Supplement.

...there is nothing elementary about O'Grady's primer. She pulls off the feat of writing a reliable and accessible introduction to modern philosophy that is also a meaningful contribution to the subject. -- Johnny Lyons * Times Literary Supplement *