A Brief History of Modern Philosophy

First published in Germany in 1912. This edition is the English translation of 1928. The book is clear, compact and comprehensive. The various schools are analyzed and criticized, and the thread of continuous development is constantly kept clearly in view. Contents include: The Philosophy of the Renaissance - The New Conception of the World - The Great Systems - English Empirical Philosophy - Philosophy of the Enlightenment in France and Germany - Immanuel Kant and the Critical Philosophy - The Philosophy of Romanticism - Positivism - New Theories of the Problem of Being Upon a Realistic Basis - New Theories of the Problems of Knowledge and of Value - Chronology of the Most Important Works. Etc.Hoffding, Harold is the author of 'A Brief History of Modern Philosophy', published 2006 under ISBN 9781406790405 and ISBN 1406790400.