History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
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History of Western Philosophy
'Remains to this day the most lucid introduction to European political thought.'
The Times
'A survey of Western philosophy in relation to its environment, of such sweep and acuteness, alive in every nerve … a masterpiece of intellectual energy … the Socrates of our time.'
A. L. Rowse
'This work possesses outstanding merits; it is throughout written in the beautiful and luminous prose of which Russell is a great master; the exposition and the argument ...