Publisher's Synopsis
History of Modern Philosophy: From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg. Since the appearance of Eduard Zeller's Grundriss der Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie (1883; 3d ed. 1889) the need has become even more apparent than before for a presentation of the history of modern philosophy which should be correspondingly compact and correspondingly available for purposes of instruction. It would have been an ambitious undertaking to attempt to supply a counterpart to the compendium of this honored scholar, with its clear and simple summation of the results of his much admired five volumes on Greek philosophy; and it has been only in regard to practical utility and careful consideration of the needs of students-concerning which we have enjoyed opportunity for gaining accurate information in the review exercises regularly held in this university-that we have ventured to hope that we might not fall too far short of his example.
