Nietzsche -- Peirce to Strawson -- C. S Peirce and pragmatism -- The logicism of Frege -- Psychology and pragmatism in William James -- British idealism and its critics -- Russell on Mathematics, logic, and language -- Wittgenstein's tractatus -- Logical positivism -- Wittgenstein's Later philosophy -- Analytical philosophy after Wittgenstein -- Freud to Derrida -- Freud and psychoanalysis -- Husserl's phenomenology -- The existentialism of Heidegger -- The existentialism of Sartre -- Jacques Derrida -- Logic -- Mill's empiricist Logic -- Frege's refoundation of logic -- Introduction and abduction in Peirce -- The saga of principia mathematica -- Modern modal logic -- Language -- Frege on sense and reference -- The pragmatists on language and truth -- Russell's theory of description -- The picture theory of the proposition -- Language-games and private languages -- Epistemology -- Two eloquent empiricists -- Peirce on the methods of science -- Frege on logic, psychology, and epistemology -- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description -- Husserl's epoche -- Wittgenstein on certainty -- Metaphysics -- Varieties of Idealism -- Metaphysics and teleology -- Realism vs. nominalism -- First, second and third in Peirce -- The metaphysics of logical atomism -- Bad and good metaphysics -- Philosophy of mind -- Bentham on intention and motive -- Reason, understanding and will -- Experimental vs. philosophical psychology -- The Freudian unconscious -- Philosophical psychology in the tractatus -- Intentionality -- Wittgenstein's later Philosophy of mind -- Ethics -- The greatest happiness of the greatest number -- Modifications of utilitarianism -- Schopenhauer on renunciation -- The moral ascent in Kierkegaard -- Nietzsche and the transvaluation of values -- Analytical ethics -- Aesthetics -- The beautiful and the sublime -- The aesthetics of Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard on music -- Nietzsche on tragedy -- Art and morality -- Art for art's sake -- Political Philosophy -- Utilitarianism and liberalism -- Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer on women -- Marx on capital and labor -- Closed and open societies -- God -- Faith vs. alienation -- The theism of John Stuart Mill -- Creation and evolution -- Newman's philosophy of religion -- The death of God and the survival of religion -- Freud on religious illusion -- Philosophical theology after Wittgenstein.

"Here is the concluding volume of Sir Anthony Kenny's monumental four-volume history of philosophy, the first major single-author narrative history to appear for several decades. In this volume, Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the end of the millennium. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have transformed our understanding of ourselves and our world. In the first part of the book, Kenny offers a lively narrative introducing the major thinkers in their historical context. Among those we meet are the great figures of continental European philosophy, from Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche to Heidegger, Sartre, and Derrida; the Pragmatists such as C.S. Pierce and William James, who first developed a distinctively American philosophical tradition; Marx, Darwin, and Freud, the non-philosophers whose influence on philosophy was immense; and Wittgenstein and Russell, friends and colleagues who set the agenda for analytic philosophy in the twentieth century. Kenny then proceeds to guide the reader lucidly through the nine main areas of philosophical work in the period, offering a serious engagement with ideas and arguments about logic, language, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, politics, and the existence of God. Graced with many beautiful illustrations, Philosophy in the Modern World concludes Kenny's stimulating history of the intellectual development of Western civilization, allowing readers to trace the birth and growth of philosophy from antiquity to the present day." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0737/2007297781-d.html.