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Frederick Copleston's nine-volume set (#00656, hardback/ #46842, paperback) has received universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit, knew that seminary students' familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was limited to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress this situation by writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his connections to predecessors and his influence on later thinkers. Volume VII is devoted exclusively to German philosophy, and it deals extensively with Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
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