Retreat

Albert Einstein 's high review of Bertrand Russell 's A History of Western Philosophy (1945) "Bertrand Russell's 'History of Philosophy' is a precious book. I don't know whether one should more admire the delightful freshness and originality or the sensitivity of the sympathy with distant times and remote mentalities on the part of this great thinker. I regard it as fortunate that our so dry and also brutal generation can point to such a wise, honourable, bold and at the same time humorous man. It is a work that is in the highest degree pedagogical which stands above the conflicts of parties and opinions." ― Albert Einstein, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1975), 14. The Return to England, p. 553 A History of Western Philosophy is a conspectus work of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century, it was criticized for its over-generalization and its omissions, particularly from the post-Cartesian period, but ne...