The Philosophical Backstairs

This classic has inspired countless people to philosophy: without heavy academic baggage, easy to read, rich in anecdotes, and humorous, Wilhelm Weischedel presents the lives and thoughts of the great philosophers. 32 entertaining essays introduce personalities, quirks, and great ideas from antiquity to modernity – from Thales, Plato, and Aristotle to Heidegger, Russell, and Wittgenstein. The great traditions and approaches of philosophical thought are made understandable to a broad readership via the "back stairs," for, according to Weischedel, it is "the access to the immediately human." Now, the bestseller by the most famous German philosopher Weischedel is finally available again.

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