WISDOM OF THE WEST by Bertrand Russell

Size A4. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Binding is good and clean inside. First published in 1959 by MacDonald & Co with 320 pages and colour and b/w illustrations. Cellotape markings on inside of boards and end papers. A historical Survey of Western Philosophy in its Social and Political setting. The author, Bertrand Russell, was a widely known and influential intellectual in the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950. In this book he traces the history and development of western philosophy from its beginnings in ancient Greece to the Atomic Age. . No shipping overseas.