Thoemmes Press

Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers
Senior Editors: W. J. Mander and Alan P. F. Sell

Following in the footsteps of Thoemmes Continuum's Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers (1999) and Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers (2000), this new work will be at the forefront of research sources in the history of ideas. The objective of this dictionary is to list a wide range of nineteenth-century authors writing in the English language about philosophical ideas and issues.
The authors fall into the period beginning (approximately) with Jeremy Bentham and ending with J. H. Muirhead. All the major nineteenth-century philosophers will appear in the dictionary, but perhaps its most valuable feature will lie in its representation of a very wide range of less well-known writers, many of whom have not been mentioned or covered elsewhere in philosophical encyclopedias or dictionaries. The importance of looking at minor figures is now widely accepted by historians of philosophy. The minor figures often posed the problems that stimulated greater intellects, and it is usually the minor figures, not the luminaries, who are the typical representatives of the thought of the period. If an author made a contribution to the history of ideas or represented to a non-specialist reader notions about the way human beings perceived or responded to the sensible (or immaterial) world, he or she is included.

Nineteenth-century ideas about what philosophy was often do not coincide with those of the twenty-first century. A feature of this dictionary is its accommodation of the wider, nineteenth-century sense of philosophy. We include writers on mainstream philosophical topics whose individual contribution was small (for example, writers of textbooks or minor critics of major figures). But we also include celebrated figures from other intellectual domains (e.g. poets, mathematicians, scientists and clergymen) who had something to say on topics that count broadly as philosophical.
Each entry aims to give the reader a glimpse of the author's life, ideas and contribution to the history of ideas and philosophy, to expound and elucidate rather than be critical, and provide bibliographical pointers to further research. Entries are written in an accessible style, avoiding unnecessary scholarly terminology, giving a biographical sketch of the author, analysis and assessment of his or her doctrines and ideas, with emphasis on the historical context and, where relevant, subsequent influences. Entries also include a bibliography listing the subject's major and minor philosophical writings and giving guidance to further reading. The dictionary will also include important anonymous philosophical tracts.

July 2002
ISBN 1-85506-955-5
2 vols: 525 pp
£ 395.00
Nostro prezzo speciale fino al 31/12/2004: £ 315.00

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