University Press of America
Pages: 273
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Trim: 6⅛ x 9⅛
978-0-7618-6519-3 • Paperback • November 2014 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
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Mia Gosselin is professor emeritus of the Free University Brussels (VUB). Having acquired a thorough knowledge of the history of philosophy, she later specialized in epistemology and founded the Center of Empirical Epistemology of the VUB. She taught philosophical anthropology for more than thirty years.
Preface
Part I. Before Philosophy
Chapter 1. The psychology of mythical thought
Chapter 2. The human individual in primitive thought
Chapter 3. The conflict between primitive ways of thinking and Aristotelian logic
Part II. Philosophers on the Subject of Man.
A Concise Historical Overview
General Introduction
Chapter 4. Antiquity
Chapter 5. The Church Fathers and the philosophers of the Middle Ages: theology and philosophy, a compromise
Chapter 6.Rationalism versus Empiricism
Chapter 7.Idealism and Marxism
Chapter 8.A complete break with Western tradition
Chapter 9. The twentieth century: more of the same
Bibliography
Index of Names