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A Short History of Western Thought (Atlantic Books, 2012)
Stephen Trombley's A Short History of Western Thought, outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today. A Short History of Western Thought is a masterly distillation of two-and-a-half millennia of intellectual history, and a readable and entertaining crash course in Western philosophy. Atlantic, 2012
“a compressed but lucid journey through 2,500 years of philosophy from the Presocratics – the first Greek philosophers – and the rise and dominance of Christianity to the age of science and modernity.” Financial Times.
the Modern World (Atlantic Books, 2012)
Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World 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.
BACKLIST TITLES
The Fontana/Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought (ed. With Alan Bullock, Fontana 1998. 2001)
The Execution Protocol (Crown, 1992)
The Right to Reproduce (Weidenfeld, 1988)
Sir Frederick Treves (Routledge, 1989)
Modern British Architecture Since 1945 (with Peter Murray, Peter Muller, 1984)
‘All That Summer She Was Mad’: Virginia Woolf and Her Doctors (Junction/Continuum, 1981)