tajeip's review against another edition
5.0
"The main reason that so little attention is paid to Continental philosophy by Analytic philosophers has to be frankly acknowledged. It is that the latter are impatient with (at best; at worst, contemptuous of) — and here I will illustrate the point — what they see as the ab/uses and con/fusions of language, which, in its unexplained neologising, its deliberate ambiguity and its overloading, attenuating or deflating of meanings (the use of the virgule is a common device, as above; a form of 'phallus/y'?) seems impressionistic and slippery, the unclarity a mask for unclarity of thought, or worse, a pretence of profundity."
billbaxter's review against another edition
4.0
Helped connect some sporadic lectures ive listened to. Time to start reading more source books.
danapillar's review against another edition
4.0
The book is written very well and covers many different philosophers in an accessible way.
The ancient philosophers were fantastic and really fun to read about. In terms of more modern philosophy; the sections on Wittgenstein and the other philosophers on language and philosophy of mind were particularly good and highlighted to me that some other philosophers were kinda trash and seemed to be making up word games that used linguistic determinism to give their theories a whole set of terms that make them more dogmatic and difficult to falsify.
Or maybe I'm just too dumb to understand those theories. I definitely need to go through my notes on this book and re-read a few sections.
I'm looking forward to reading frontiers of knowledge
The ancient philosophers were fantastic and really fun to read about. In terms of more modern philosophy; the sections on Wittgenstein and the other philosophers on language and philosophy of mind were particularly good and highlighted to me that some other philosophers were kinda trash and seemed to be making up word games that used linguistic determinism to give their theories a whole set of terms that make them more dogmatic and difficult to falsify.
Or maybe I'm just too dumb to understand those theories. I definitely need to go through my notes on this book and re-read a few sections.
I'm looking forward to reading frontiers of knowledge
colin_lavery's review against another edition
3.0
I felt like he glazed over some of the more complex thinkers for the sake of brevity, even though the book ended up being 585 pages. And I didn’t think the non-western chapters did much for the book
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