Book description
'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and, 'we have also framed unto ourselves a language.'
Witcraft is a fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became…
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1 author picked Witcraft as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a very unusual introduction to the history of philosophy that brings a deep and powerful sense of how major contributions to philosophy over two millennia were fully intertwined in their historical settings. It significantly upsets the standard, "Plato to NATO," story that is told of philosophy.
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