Book Title • Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love
Author • Andrew Thomas Shaffer (b. 1978)
Publication • New York: HarperPaperbacks
Edition • 1st ed.
Year • 2011
Language • English
ISBN • 9780061969812; 0061969818
LCCN • 2009-54302
OCLC • 496160454
Class Descriptors • LC: PN6231.L6; Dewey: 818/.607
Note(s) • Includes bibliographical references; table of contents is indexed alphabetically by philosopher
Subject Descriptors • Love -- Humor; Philosophy -- Humor
Appropriate Audiences • Academic libraries: Undergraduate, graduate, faculty and researchers; Public libraries: General audience
Contents
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) -- Louis Althusser (1918-1990) -- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) -- St. Augustine Of Hippo (354-430) -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) -- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) -- John Calvin (1509-1564) -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) -- Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) -- Auguste Comte (1798-1857) -- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -- John Dewey (1859-1952) -- Denis Diderot (1713-1784) -- Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BC) -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) -- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- David Hume (1711-1776) -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- Titus Lucretius (99-55 BC) -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Plato (427-347 BC) -- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- Seneca the Younger (4 BC-AD 65) -- Socrates (469-399 BC) -- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)