About the Author
David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. He is the author of a number of books including Metaphor (1986), Existentialism (1990, second edition 1999) and World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (1996). He is also editor of A Companion to Aesthetics (1992), and three previous volumes in the series Philosophy: The Classic Readings - Aesthetics (1997), Ethics (1997) and Epistemology (1999). All of the above are published by Blackwell.
Features
* Includes non-western texts as well as the classics of the western tradition.
* Lucid Introduction and preambles to the texts.
* Chronologically arranged.
* Belongs to a well-established, successful and continuing series which, when complete, will be the largest anthology of philosophical classics ever assembled.
