The Mentor Philosophers was a series of six books each covering a period of philosophical thought, published by the New American Library. Each book was edited by an esteemed contemporary philosophy academic and contained analysis of a group of philosophers from a chosen period.
The series was very influential during the 1950s and 1960s, and was considered innovative, in its time, for "expanding...the realm of serious reading" available in a paperback-book format.[1] Literary historian Gilbert Highet called it a "very important and interesting series".
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Year published
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Editor
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Subjects
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Time period
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| The Age of Belief
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1954
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Anne Fremantle
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St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, Erigena, Anselm, Abelard, Bonaventure, Averroes
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Medieval Philosophers
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| The Age of Adventure
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1956
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Giorgio de Santillana
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Nicholas of Cusa, Da Vinci, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Martin Luther, Albrecht Dürer, Copernicus, Montaigne, Kepler, Jakob Böhme, Galileo, Richard Hakluyt, Giordano Bruno
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Renaissance Philosophers
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| The Age of Reason
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1956
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Stuart Hampshire
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Francis Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz
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17th century philosophers
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| The Age of Enlightenment
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1956
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Isaiah Berlin
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John Locke, Voltaire, George Berkeley, David Hume, Thomas Reid, Condillac, La Mettrie, Johann Georg Hamann, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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18th century philosophers
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| The Age of Ideology
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1956
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Henry David Aiken
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Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Auguste Comte, Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Ernst Mach, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard
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19th century philosophers
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| The Age of Analysis
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1955
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Morton White
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Peirce, Whitehead, James, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein, Croce, Bergson, Rudolf Carnap, Sartre, Santayana
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20th century philosophers
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