by Ray Monk, Frederic Raphael · Orion Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753811368
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«The Great Philosophers: From Socrates to Turing» is a collective work edited by Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael, published by Orion Paperbacks in paperback.
It brings together in chronological order twelve essays by specialists on major figures of Western thought, from Socrates to Alan Turing: Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Marx, Russell, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Popper. Each chapter presents the essential ideas of a philosopher and their context, in an accessible style.
Published by Orion Paperbacks on 5 April 2001; 570 pages in English. The original series appeared in 2000.
For the general public seeking an accessible introduction to the history of philosophy and the ideas of its key figures.
Frederic Michael Raphael is an American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd, Two for the Road, and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut. Raphael rose to prominence in the early 1960s with the publication of several acclaimed novels, but most notably with the release of the John Schlesinger film Darling, starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde, a romantic drama set in Swinging London, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966. Two years later he was nominated again in the same category, this time for his work on Stanley Donen’s Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Since the death of screenwriter D. M. Marshman Jr. in 2015, he is the earliest surviving recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the sole surviving recipient of the now retired BAFTA category of Best British Screenplay.
