title: The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (New Edition)
author:  Anthony Gottlieb 
description: Supplants all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.<br /> - <strong>A. C. Grayling, <em>Independent</em></strong><br /><br />Gottlieb is as enjoyable as he is intellectually stimulating.<br /> - <strong>Robert Conquest, <em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong><br /><br />[Gottlieb] writes with fluency and lucidity, with a gift for making even difficult matters seem comprehensible.<br /> - <strong>Richard Jenkins, <em>New York Times</em></strong><br /><br />A delight. It is written with both wit and scholarship, providing a wonderful overall picture of Western philosophy up to the Renaissance.<br /> - <strong>Sir Roger Penrose</strong>
zlib_text: About the Book
  From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, the
  volume provides lively, in-depth and up-to-date historical analysis of
  all the key figures, schools and movements of Western philosophy.
  Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly
  approachable chronological account of the development of Western
  philosophical traditions.
  The Pimlico History significantly broadens the scope of Western
  philosophy to reveal the influence of Middle Eastern and Asian thought,
  the vital contributions of Jewish and Islamic philosophers, and the role of
  women within the tradition. Popkin also emphasizes schools and
  developments that have traditionally been overlooked. Sections on Plato
  and Aristotle are followed by a detailed presentation on Hellenistic
  philosophy and its influence on the modern developments of materialism
  and scepticism. Another chapter considers Renaissance philosophy and its
  seminal influence on modern humanism and science. Turning to the
  mod