The age of ideology ; the nineteenth century philosophers, selected with introd. and interpretive commentary.

Author: Aiken, Henry D. (Henry David), 1912-1982.

Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1957, [c1956]

Description283 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:Brief extracts from the philosophers' works are included.

Note:Philosophy and ideology in the nineteenth century -- The transcendental turn in modern philosophy: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Egoism in German philosophy: Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) -- Dialectics and history: G.W.F.Hegel (1770-1831) -- The world as will and idea: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- The father of positivism: Auguste Comte (1798-1857) -- The saint of liberalism: John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) -- The apostle of evolution: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- Dialectics and materialism: Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) -- Salvation without a savior: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- The advent of existentialism: Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855) -- The return to enlightenment: Ernst Mach (1838-1916) -- Concluding unscientific postscript.

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