''The Mentor Philosophers'' was a series of six books each covering a period of philosophical thought, published by the
New American Library
The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948. Its initial focus was affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works as well as popular and pulp fiction, but it now publish ...
. Each book was edited by an esteemed contemporary philosophy academic and contained analysis of a group of philosophers from a chosen period.
The series was very influential during the 1950s and 1960s and went a number of editions in paperback. Literary historian
Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Arthur Highet (; June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary historian.
Biography
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-centur ...
called it a "very important and interesting series".
Lists of books
Philosophy books
Encyclopedias of philosophy
Philosophy of religion literature
Political philosophy literature
New American Library books
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