Bryan Magee Bücher

Die leicht verständliche Einführung in die Geschichte der Philosophie berücksichtigt alle namhaften Denker und Hauptströmungen von der Antike über das Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Über 100 Philosophen - von Sokrates und Platon bis hin zu Wittgenstein und Habermas - werden vorgestellt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der europäischen und deutschen Philosophie, doch auch die Philosophie des Fernen Ostens wird berücksichtigt. Ein großes Kapitel zur Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts bildet den Schlussteil des Buches. Die wichtigsten Fragen der Philosophie werden von über 400 Abbildungen, die meisten davon farbig, begleitet. Sie zeigen Porträts einzelner Philosophen und veranschaulichen komplexe Probleme. So wird trockene Philosophie lebendig!

Der britische Philosoph Bryan Magee schildert sein Leben mit der Philosophie. Er erzählt von den großen Fragen, die ihn als Kind beschäftigten, berichtet von seinen späteren Begegnungen mit den fundamentalen Ideen der Philosophie und von seiner persönlichen Suche nach einem System, das ihm die Welt zu erklären vermag. Anschaulich macht Magee den Leser mit An- und Einsichten großer Denker zu Themen wie Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit, Erkenntnis und Moral vertraut und erklärt, warum das Leben manchmal leichter mittels Dichtung und Musik als durch abstraktes Denken zu begreifen ist.

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. This title places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and offers a comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer. schovat popis

This is a revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's widely praised study of Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive book on this great philosopher. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical discussion of the problems to which it gives rise and of its influence on a wide range of thinkers and artists. For this new edition Magee has added three new chapters and made many minor revisions and corrections throughout. This new edition will consolidate the book's standing as the definitive study of Schopenhauer.

An analysis of Wagner, his music, stage directions, prose and his influence on the culture of our age, with a discussion of the reasons for the reactions his work has provoked. Magee sheds light on Wagner's anti-semitic ideas and the way these were used by the Nazis for their own ends.

Western philosophy remains one of the greatest glories of world civilization, yet surprisingly few people have any real knowledge of it. Based on fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of today's internationally-known scholars and philosophers, The Great Philosophers presents an accessible, intellectually stimulating history of philosophy from Plato to the present day. Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 B.C. and the subsequent writings of Plato--the first Western philosopher whose works have survived--they carry the story through the work of Aristotle and the medieval philosophers; the writings of Descartes and other seventeenth-century philosophers including Spinoza, Leibniz, and Locke; the work of Berkeley and the eighteenth-century thinkers, Hume and Kant; the theories of the nineteenth-century encompassed in the writings of Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche; to the twentieth-century ideas included in the works of Husserl, Heidegger and the modern existentialists, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and the American pragmatists. The contributors include such influential figures as Martha Nussbaum, Bernard Williams, Anthony Quinton, Michael Ayers, Geoffrey Warnock, Peter Singer, Hubert Dreyfus, Sidney Morgenbesser, and John Searle, all who offer lively and clear discussions of difficult philosophical concepts. The Great Philosophers provides an absorbing introduction to the concepts of Western philosophy and to its greatest thinkers.