The Mentor Philosophers

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 went a number of editions in paperback. Literary historian Gilbert Highet called it a "very important and interesting series".

Title  | Year published  | Editor  | Subjects  | Time period

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The Age of Belief | 1954  | Anne Fremantle  | St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, Erigena, Anselm, Abelard, Bonaventure, Averroes | Medieval Philosophers
The Age of Adventure | 1956  | Giorgio de Santillana | Nicholas of Cusa, Da Vinci, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Martin Luther, Albrecht Dürer, Copernicus, Montaigne, Kepler, Jakob Böhme, Galileo, Richard Hakluyt, Giordano Bruno | Renaissance Philosophers
The Age of Reason | 1956  | Stuart Hampshire | Francis Bacon, Pascal, Hobbes, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz | 17th century philosophers
The Age of Enlightenment | 1956  | Isaiah Berlin | John Locke, Voltaire, George Berkeley, David Hume, Thomas Reid, Condillac, La Mettrie, Johann Georg Hamann, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | 18th century philosophers
The Age of Ideology | 1956  | Henry David Aiken  | Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Auguste Comte, Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Ernst Mach, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard  | 19th century philosophers
The Age of Analysis | 1955  | Morton White | Peirce, Whitehead, James, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein, Croce, Bergson, Rudolf Carnap, Sartre, Santayana | 20th century philosophers

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