Reviews for Christopher Caudwell

The average rating for Christopher Caudwell based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-06-05 00:00:00 Michael Brasch One of the best histories of philosophy I've read, and I've read far too many of them. Passmore writes beautifully, and clearly, and, for the most part, sympathetically, about an enormous number of people you've never read, or never heard of, or never even really need to have heard of. But he also does a great job on the major figures of this time period (i.e., from Mill to Quine). I was already impressed with his ability to write about Wittgenstein, Collingwood, Austin and Russell as if he was a critical partisan of each. But then he does justice to Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty! I say he's even-handed, and he does justice, but by that I mean he isn't afraid to be critical, particularly where criticism is warranted (i.e., much of Jaspers and much of Sartre). He also has obvious biases. But in general, an amazing history of an occasionally obscure period. Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-30 00:00:00 Ross Mcphail Of great value to philosophy students; less so for the lay reader. And not so much for the scientist, who may be left asking, "Yes, but what have you actually agreed upon as a working theory in the last hundred years?"