While we tend to think of the great thinkers as hailing from Ancient Greece, the 20th century has had more than its fair share of sharp minds.
`500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 20th Century' is a collection of reflections, insights, and observations from some of the best brains of that era.
A superb book for dipping in and out of, this makes a great gift for anyone with an interest in history or philosophy.
Born in Ohio, Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) went on to write one of the greatest American novels of all time, `The Devil's Dictionary.' Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded the science of psychoanalysis. A Romanian, Emil Cioran (1911-1995) was an acclaimed philosopher who embraced nihilism and pessimism in his ideology.
One of the founders of analytical psychology, Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) was a Swiss psychoanalyst and psychologist who had a huge impact on psychology as a science. Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962) was born in Bar-sur-Aube and went on to become an important scientific philosopher.
