A history of philosophy that covers, from Antiquity to the present day, the evolution of universal thought. Stoicism, epicureanism, nationalism, empiricism, idealism, positivism, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, the Vienna Circle, the Frankfurt School, analytical philosophy, postmodernism. A history of the philosophers that emphasizes the life and intellectual trajectory of the men who have made the history of philosophy: From Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, up to Freud, Husserl, Bergson, Saussure, Heidegger, Russell, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Sartre, Foucault ,, Derrida, Arendt, Habermas, Rawls, Jankélévitch, Levinas. A history of the philosophers illustrated by the texts proposes, in 250 passages, an exceptional anthology of the most beautiful pages of philosophy. The most original and important texts, both classical (Platonic cave myth, Descartes' wax stroke, Rousseau's social contract, Kant's idealism) and modern (Nietzsche's nihilism and will to power, Marx's historical materialism, Sartre's existentialism and Camus, Foucault's theory of power, Derrida's deconstruction, Rawls' justice). Indispensable for the university student.