A politically oriented study of the thought of the founders of the main schools of contemporary academic philosophy, those which dominate nearly all universities throughout the world. It concentrates on four key masters: Wittgenstein, who founded both Logical Positivism and the so-called Common Language or Analytic school;
Foreword - Introduction - PART 1: EARLY AND LATE PHILOSOPHIES - Primary Masterworks - The Turning Kehre) - Secondary Masterworks - PART 2: INFLUENCES AND CONFLUENCES - Fathers and Sons - Forefathers and Other Ancestral Figures - Friends and Followers