The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant · Will Durant
A 1926 narrative history built around individual philosophers, from Plato and Bacon through Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche and Bergson, told through their lives and circumstances. Readers gain a readable, opinionated overview of Western thought, though coverage stops before twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
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