Fifty thinkers who shaped the modern world
"Fifty thinkers who shaped the modern world" profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political and social theorists as well as spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in. It offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century. For the reader who has lain awake fretting over his tenuous grasp of the "Critiques of Immanuel Kant", or his un...