{"product_id":"9781782390381","title":"Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World \u003c\/i\u003eprofiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Trombley's \u003ci\u003eFifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World \u003c\/i\u003etraces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e No major representative of post-Enlightenment thought escapes Trombley's attention: the German idealists Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel; the utilitarians Bentham and Mill; the transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau; Kierkegaard and the existentialists; founders of new fields of inquiry such as Weber, Durkheim and C.S. Peirce; the analytic philosophers Russell, Moore, Whitehead and Wittgenstein; political leaders from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Adolf Hitler; and - last but not least - the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, begetter of the special and general theories of relativity and founder of post-Newtonian physics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eFifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140042047728,"sku":"9781782390381","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782390381_p0.jpg?v=1763719368","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782390381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}