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Review title: A useful reference work.
Product review: As a classicist/medievalist I have found this book to be very useful as a reference work while working on my own areas of study (intellectual life in late antiquity and the high middle ages). I suspect that other people working in different philosophical fields would find this work just as useful, as this edition covers a wide variety of philosophers from vastly different times and places. As someone who is generally interested in philosophy and the history of ideas, I often enjoy browsing the sections on individual modern, postmodern and Asian philosophers, and so I have found this book to be helpful in expanding my own intellectual horizons. Anyone else seriously interested in ideas and/or their academic study will also find this volume both interesting and rewarding.
