Enciclopedia della Filosofia Garzanti
The history of western thought gathered in a complete and accurate encyclopaedia. Authors, doctrines, schools (from atomism to existentialism, and from positivism to phenomenology), research scopes (ethics, logic, aestethics, epistemology, hermeneutics, language philosophy, neurosciences), concepts concetti (from abduction to ideal type, from entelechy to truth, from artificial intelligence to postmodern). Furthermore, 300 key works in the history of philosophy, annotated and set against the production of the author, and entries dedicated to “human sciences”: pedagogy, psycology, psychoanalysis, sociology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, theology.
Databank:
• more than 3300 entries written by specialists
• places and dates of birth for each figure
• dating of works
• 300 summaries of philosophical key works
• synoptical chronology
• a circuit of 4500 crossreferences between entries
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