Abstract

This is the seventh edition of a compact dictionary–cyclopaedia which has now established itself as an authoritative vade–mecum for German students of philosophy. With an introductory 29–page table of concepts and a concluding 80–page systematic tableau of the history of philosophy and a 20–page index of names, its substance lies in a 400–page collection of succinct articles which bears systematically on every department, historical school of thought, key problem, principle and term of established philosophical thinking. The work was composed under the general editorship of Father Brugger by a team of twenty teaching specialists drawn from the staff of St. Berchman’s Jesuit College at Pullach near Munich and from similar institutions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United States.