Roger Scruton
A Short History of Modern Philosophy
From Descartes to Wittgenstein

Content:

Introduction
1 History of philosophy and history of ideas 3
2 The rise of modern philosophy 12
Part One: Rationalism
3 Descartes 27
4 The Cartesian revolution 38
5 Spinoza 47
6 Leibniz 64
Part Two: Empiricism
7 Locke and Berkeley 79
8 The idea of a moral science 102
9 Hume 115
Part Three: Kant and idealism
10 Kant I: The Critique of Pure Reason 133
11 Kant II: Ethics and aesthetics 144
12 Hegel 161
13 Reactions: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 176
Part Four: The political transformation
14 Political philosophy from Hobbes to Hegel 193
15 Marx 208
16 Utilitarianism and after 222
Part Five: Recent philosophy
17 Frege 237
18 Phenomenology and existentialism 250
19 Wittgenstein 267