The most beautiful story of philosophy

A journey to understand the history of ideas and a set of tools for contemporary debate. What is philosophy? What can we expect from it, and what is its "purpose"? How did the great concepts succeed each other? How and why did Plato, Descartes, Kant, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and others come up with ideas that changed everything? Luc Ferry tells the history of thought as a fabulous epic from antiquity to the present, with a look at the current context and the answers philosophy can provide to contemporary disorientation. The most beautiful history of philosophy tells the story of philosophical thought, from antiquity to the present day, in a clear and accessible way. By narrating the genesis and development of the work of the greatest philosophers, Luc Ferry, in this conversation with Claude Capelier, shows what each of them brought that was irreplaceable, their developments, their spectacular changes of direction, and the concepts that radically transformed our way of thinking. The duo presents philosophy as a fundamental quest, at once ancient and furiously current, that progressively brings us closer to the essence of humanity. Where do we find ourselves in the age of globalization and recycled fundamentalisms from other eras? How do we respond to our disorientation in the face of a universe that still—and always—is slipping through our fingers?