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Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
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A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY VOLUME IX Modern Philosophy: From the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss Frederick Copleston, S.J. IMAGE BOOKS DOUBLEDAY New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY by Frederick Copleston, S.J. VOLUME I: GREECE AND ROME From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus VOLUME II: MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY From Augustine to Duns Scotus VOLUME III: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY AN IMAGE BOOK PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 Ockham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the Modern World VOLUME IV: MODERN PHILOSOPHY From Descartes to Leibniz VOLUME V: MODERN PHILOSOPHY IMAGE, DOUBLEDAY, and the portrayal of a deer drinking from a stream are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. First Image Books edition of Volume IX of A History of Philosophy published 1977 by special arrangement with The Newman Press and Burns & Oates, Ltd. The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume VOLUME VI: MODERN PHILOSOPHY From the French Enlightenment to Kant VOLUME VII: MODERN PHILOSOPHY From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche VOLUME VIII: MODERN PHILOSOPHY This Image edition published March 1994. EmpiriCism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America VOLUME IX: MODERN PHILOSOPHY Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cop