The history of European thought offers a breathtaking panorama. A single life is usually not sufficient to gain an overview of it. Ludwig Marcuse has compiled a reader in three volumes, which combines selected sample passages of the great European thinkers with introductory words on their lives and works. The result is an introduction to the pantheon of European thinking – and a standard work for every age. Volume I : Book of Job, Diogenes Laertius, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Caesar, Sallustius, Ovid, Plutarch, Tacitus, Marcus Aurelius, and others Volume II : Aurelius Augustinus, Hildegard of Bingen, Dante, Thomas More, Ignatius of Loyola, Friedrich Schiller, Novalis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Ludwig Börne, and others Volume III : Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Georg Büchner, Richard Wagner, Gottfried Keller, Søren Kierkegaard, Gustave Flaubert, Karl Kraus, Oswald Spengler, Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers, Thomas Mann, and others

A dictionary for contemporaries with key words from ›anarchy‹ to ›togetherness.‹ Life's ABC by an epicurean lacking in illusion, a philanthropic pessimist, who seeks humanizing changes while allowing himself to be pushed before a cart filled with ideological baggage.