Within the past hundred years few scholarly tasks have proved so difficult or elusive as the achievement of a succinct yet comprehensive history of philosophy that conveys the majesty and essential content of the great traditions. If I were asked to name a hook for a person who could read only one history of philosophy, I should select Windel band's. He combines conciseness with thoroughness in a quite extraor dinary way. He is keenly aware of the relation between philosophic ideas and their historical environment." JUSTUS BUCHLER

"I can hardly imagine someone studying and absorbing Windelband's HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHD without becoming a lover of philosophy, and perhaps even a philosopher himself."