内容简介：
A guide to the thinkers and theories from 1000 BC to the present day. The book explains the major schools of thought from the Stoics to the Post Modernists and aims to give the reader enough information to understand the thinking of familiar figures such as Aristotle, Hegel, Sartre and Foucault.
作者简介：
Martyn Oliver is the chair of the Political Philosophy group at the Centre for the Study of Democracy in London. He also lectures in Po litical Science and Philosophy. He has written a number of academic journals and periodicals.