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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Thanks -- Introduction: towards a revolution -- 1601 PHILOSOPHY LEARNS ENGLISH -- Arts-course philosophy and the humanist revolt -- Speake by the card -- Any potter knows better than him -- Nothing either good or bad -- We English men have wits -- Either a yeasay or a naysay -- Why not logike? -- The diffusion of humanist philosophy -- A smattering in Latin -- Lives of the philosophers -- The first doctor -- Out of Egypt -- Shadows of ideas -- Becoming a philosopher -- Felicity and Happinesse -- I love not to smell of the inkhorn -- A jerke of the French jargon -- To goe beyond others -- 1651 PURITANS, PHILOSOPHERS, COMEDIANS -- Philosophy and the day of wrath -- Philosophers and other heathens -- Synagogues of Satan -- Body and soul -- Masters and possessours of Nature -- A long chaine of discourses -- A Cambridge Cartesian -- The desarts of America -- Indian prayers -- Humane learning in New England -- Philosophy old and new -- Atomism and new philosophy -- Old philosophy and magic -- Quixo-philosophy -- Laught aright -- The privilege of absurdity -- Célèbre philosophe anglais -- Read thy self -- Contention, sedition and contempt -- Are they not mad? -- 1701 POLITICS, RELIGION AND THE TWO NEW PHILOSOPHIES -- Free-thinking and the condition of Europe -- Atheists, deists and the Electress -- How Christianity became mysterious -- Le pourquoi du pourquoi -- A philosophy of mankind -- The Christian Virtuoso -- Eastern wisdom, French philosophy, British ignorance -- Philosophy à la mode -- Britishness and the English language -- A voyage to the world of Descartes -- Seeing all things in God -- An antipast of heaven -- The other new philosophy -- Simple ideas and fairy money -- The mind makes the patterns -- Personal identity and moral algebra.

An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that "philosophy should be written like poetry." But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways

The text published below is the transcript of a BBC radio feature in the series "Journeys in Thought" created by Jonathan Rée. Rée concentrates on turning points in the intellectual lives of great thinkers, exploring their ideas and positioning them in time and place. His journey to Israel "in the footsteps of the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt" took him to Jerusalem, from where he returned with a unique and lively documentary radio programme, thus adding a valuable contribution to the debate on Arendt and her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The programme was first broadcast on 23 November 2003, with a repeat on 28 August 2004; it can be listened to at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/journeysinthought/pip/ashxz/. Having taught philosophy in London for nearly thirty years, Jonathan Rée became a househusband and freelance writer at the turn of the millenium. His books include Proletarian Philosophers, Philosophical Tales, Heidegger, and I See a Voice. For the last ten years he has been working on a history of philosophy. We are grateful to Jonathan Rée for permission to reproduce his programme.

The text published below is the transcript of a BBC radio feature in the series "Journeys in Thought" created by Jonathan Rée. Rée concentrates on turning points in the intellectual lives of great thinkers, exploring their ideas and positioning them in time and place. His journey to Israel "in the footsteps of the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt" took him to Jerusalem, from where he returned with a unique and lively documentary radio programme, thus adding a valuable contribution to the debate on Arendt and her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. The programme was first broadcast on 23 November 2003, with a repeat on 28 August 2004; it can be listened to at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/journeysinthought/pip/ashxz/. Having taught philosophy in London for nearly thirty years, Jonathan Rée became a househusband and freelance writer at the turn of the millenium. His books include Proletarian Philosophers, Philosophical Tales, Heidegger, and I See a Voice. For the last ten years he has been working on a history of philosophy. We are grateful to Jonathan Rée for permission to reproduce his programme.

WE MAY ALL BE ATHEISTS THESE DAYS, BUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS IS NOT AS GREAT AS WE MAY LIKE TO THINK