NOUVELLE HISTOIRE DES IDÉES

The history of thought for everyone. A future classic.

To tell the story of ideas in a fluid, direct style, accessible to all, is the goal of this book, written by an exceptional teacher whose courses have been followed passionately for over thirty years by thousands of students.
Never ponderous in his writing, Alain Blondy provides a grand synthesis that summarizes the ideas and seminal books of humanity's great thinkers, from Plato to the new philosophers. He gives the appropriate amount of attention to all the main currents and schools of thought, both religious and secular. The author's sense of synthesis makes the subject accessible, and his way with words makes it lively and exciting - essential qualities for a history of ideas usually imprisoned in heavy tomes.

A university professor, ALAIN BLONDY has been teaching for more than thirty years at CELSA, the University of Paris-Sorbonne communications and journalism school. A visiting professor in Tunis, Cyprus and Moscow, he has also taught at the University of Malta. He is considered a leading specialist on the Mediterranean
world, about which he has written several books.