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. Literary historian Gilbert Highet called it a "very important and interesting series".
TitleYear publishedEditorSubjectsTime periodThe Age of Belief1954Anne FremantleSt. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, Erigena, Anselm, Abelard, Bonaventure, AverroesMedieval PhilosophersThe Age of Adventure1956Giorgio de SantillanaNicholas of Cusa, Da Vinci, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Martin Luther, Albrecht Dürer, Copernicus, Montaigne, Kepler, Jakob Böhme, Galileo, Richard Hakluyt, Giordano BrunoRenaissance PhilosophersThe Age of Reason1956Stuart HampshireFrancis Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz17th century philosophersThe Age of Enlightenment1956Isaiah BerlinJohn Locke, Voltaire, George Berkeley, David Hume, Thomas Reid, Condillac, La Mettrie, Johann Georg Hamann, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg18th century philosophersThe Age of Ideology1956Henry David AikenKant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Auguste Comte, Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Ernst Mach, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard19th century philosophersThe Age of Analysis1955Morton WhitePeirce, Whitehead, James, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein, Croce, Bergson, Rudolf Carnap, Sartre, Santayana20th century philosophers
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