Abstract

Kant, Plato, Markus Gabriel, Watsuji Tetsuro, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and more. You can understand the pattern of thinking of the world's greatest intellectual giants in a single phrase.

- From the Introduction -
Philosophy takes a broad perspective and a long-range approach when thinking about things. It is a way of taking a step back and asking, "What does it all mean originally?" Philosophy then proposes a new set of spectacles for thinking about how we should look at the world... In this book, I present the glasses of thought that philosophy has proposed for 2,500 years. Try them out and see for yourself. I expect you will be surprised by what you discover.

Author’s Information

Yuichiro Okamoto

Professor Emeritus, Tamagawa University
Professor Okamoto was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1954. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Ethics from the Graduate School of Letters, Kyushu University. D. in Literature.
After working as an assistant at Kyushu University and as a professor at the Faculty of Letters, Tamagawa University, he assumed his current position in 2019.
He specializes in modern and contemporary Western philosophy, but his interests are wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary in philosophy and technology.
His book "What the World's Philosophers Are Thinking About Now"(Diamond, Inc.) was a bestseller, summarizing the thinking of contemporary philosophers into the 21st century.
His many other books include "History of French Modern Thought"(Chuko Shinsho), "Modern Thought from 12 Years Old"(Chikuma Shinsho), "Mono Sapiens"(Kobunsha Shinsho), and "Hegel and the Criticality of Modern Thought"(Nakanishiya Shuppan).


（Information is current at the time of publishing.）