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As the subtitle indicates, the ancient Greeks are the subject of this masterly deep dive. (A text box notes that philosophy developed independently of the West in India and East Asia.) After chapters on the pre-Socratics, Socrates and Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic thought, there is a 2,000-year gap, then 19 pages on 20th-century, analytic, continental, and pragmatic philosophy. But there is plenty for D'Angelo (retired supervisor, Brooklyn P.L.; Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library) to explain in the sections on the foundational Greeks (and perhaps separate volumes on modern Western philoso...Log In or Sign Up to Read More