Penguin presents the audiobook release of The History of Philosophy compiled by A.C. Grayling, read by Neil Gardner.

The storyplot of philosophy can be an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of a few of the most creative thoughts known to humanity. But since the long-popular traditional Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Beliefs, first published in 1945, there has been no extensive and amusing, single-volume history of this great intellectual trip.

Along with his about THE ANNALS of Philosophy characteristic clarity and elegance A. C. Grayling takes the reader in the world-views and moralities before the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, through Christianity’s dominance from the Western european mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, and school of thought today. And, because the tale of beliefs is incomplete without reference to the great philosophical traditions of India, China as well as the Persian-Arabic world, he provides comparative survey of these too.

Intelligible for college students and eye-opening for viewpoint readers, he addresses epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, logic, the philosophy of brain, the school of thought of language, political philosophy and the annals of debates in these areas of enquiry, through the tips from the celebrated philosophers aswell as less well-known influential thinkers. He also asks what we have learnt from this body of thought, and what progress is still to be made.

The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy for many years, remarkable because of its range and clarity, that is a landmark work.