Ideas That Matter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465025213)

Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In Ideas that Matter, renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will shape our world in the decades to come. With customary wit, fire, and erudition, Grayling ranges across the gamut of essential theories, movements, and philosophies -- from animal rights to neurophilosophy to war crimes -- provoking and elucidating throughout.

Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and in explaining the most complex and influential ones in laymen's terms, Ideas that Matter will help every engaged citizen better understand it.

Author: A. C. Grayling
ISBN-10: 0465025218
ISBN-13: 9780465025213
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2012
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.25w x 1.22d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 3