The Adventure of Thinking

The history of philosophy within everyone's reach.

There is nothing more comforting for man, nor more dangerous, than certainties. Our best defense is philosophy, which largely consists of the art of questioning them, of daring to think, of challenging established truths and seeing what they hide. In this journey through the history of philosophy, Fernando Savater introduces us to the great figures who, with their questions, and sometimes with their answers, have shaped Western thought.

Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Thomas Aquinas, Nietzsche, Marx, Ortega, Wittgenstein, and eighteen more philosophers parade through these pages guided by Savater, who, with his usual lucid, entertaining, and intelligent style, explains their most important ideas and summarizes their careers. A tribute to the inalienable exercise of intellectual freedom, this book is truly an invitation to escape clichés and share with the great philosophers the wonderful adventure of thinking.

Critics have said...
"Another step in Savater's effort to bring knowledge closer to people, to awaken critical awareness in citizens, to instruct while delighting, as he has been doing for decades."
Granada Hoy