Anthony John Gottlieb (born 1956) is a British writer, author, historian of ideas, and former Executive Editor of The ''

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''. He is the author of two major works on the history of philosophy, '' The Dream of Reason'' and '' The Dream of Enlightenment''. A Two-Year Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from October 2017, Gottlieb has previously held visiting fellowships at All Souls and Harvard University, and has been a visiting scholar at

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and fellow at the Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He has also taught at the CUNY Graduate Center and the New School in New York. He is a fellow of the

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and the series editor of The Routledge Guides to the Great Books. Gottlieb was educated at

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, and

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. He was formerly married to the British author

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''The Economist''

Gottlieb was a member of the editorial staff of ''

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'' from 1984 to 2006, and its Executive Editor and editor of "Economist.com" from 1997 to 2006. His earlier posts at the magazine included Britain Correspondent, Science and Technology Editor, and Surveys Editor. He describes his having taken up journalism as being " accident" and that he "was looking for distractions from academic

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Works

Gottlieb's published books include '' The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance'', '' The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy'' and ''Socrates''. He has published many articles and book reviews in ''

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'' since 1990 on subjects ranging from philosophy and history to the role of talking parrots in literature and the significance of sex with robots, and in ''

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'' on the

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family,

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, works on

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, the theory of voting, and evolutionary psychology. His work also appears in '' Intelligent Life'' and ''

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''. He is currently working on a third volume in his history of western philosophy that will cover Kant and the schools that followed him up to the present day.

''The Economist''

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