何兆武

Also known as: 何兆武口述, 何兆武等

Notable works
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human MindOn the French RevolutionA History of Western Philosophy (2 Volumes)

12 written works

About the author

Public information about He Zhaowu is limited; his writings and translations are largely devoted to the history of Western thought. Twelve of his works are included here, among them An Outline of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind, Reflections on the French Revolution, A History of Western Philosophy (2 volumes), The Social Contract and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Miscellaneous Notes: Essays on the History of Western Thought, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, On Science and Art, and The Reconstruction of Historical Reason (Boya Intellectual History Series). These works combine translations of classics with thematic analysis and span world history, Western philosophy, and social culture, appearing in categories such as social science, philosophy readings, and classic works. His writing is known for tracing intellectual lineages and examining historical reason, and has had a certain influence in related reading circles.

Written (12)

The Social Contract · Discourse on the Origin of Inequality cover
Rating 4.5
The Social Contract · Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 让·雅克·卢梭 / 何兆武 The Commercial Press · 2026 The Social Contract and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality form an important part of the Western political and cultural tradition. With a long …
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind cover
Rating 4.8
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind 孔多塞 / 何兆武 / 何冰 Peking University Press · 2025 This book divides human history into ten epochs, embodying the historical outlook of the 18th-century Enlightenment: history is the product of humanit…
18世纪哲学家的天城 cover
Rating 4.5
18世纪哲学家的天城 卡尔·贝克尔 / 何兆武 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is based on the Storrs Lectures the author delivered at Yale University in 1931. It argues that the eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinker…
Weeds: Essays on the History of Western Thought cover
Rating 4.5
Weeds: Essays on the History of Western Thought 何兆武 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is one volume in the collected works of He Zhaowu. A graduate of National Southwestern Associated University and versed in both Chinese and …
The Reconstruction of Historical Reason (Boya Intellectual History Series) cover
Rating 4.3
The Reconstruction of Historical Reason (Boya Intellectual History Series) 何兆武 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is a collection of the author's recent writings, mainly in the fields of Western thought and the philosophy of history. It contains thirty e…
From Speculation to Analysis: The Reconstruction of Historical Reason cover
Rating 4.2
From Speculation to Analysis: The Reconstruction of Historical Reason 何兆武 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is one volume in the collected works of He Zhaowu. A graduate of National Southwestern Associated University and equally versed in Chinese a…
Possibility and Reality: Some Reflections on Historiography cover
Rating 4.1
Possibility and Reality: Some Reflections on Historiography 何兆武 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is one of the volumes in He Zhaowu's collected works. A graduate of National Southwestern Associated University and versed in both Chinese a…
Seven Days of Talks on Classics cover
Rating 3.7
Seven Days of Talks on Classics 何兆武 Peking University Press · 2025 This book takes the grand perspective of the history of human civilization and selects seven classic works that have had a profound impact on human pr…
On the French Revolution cover
Rating 4.8
On the French Revolution 埃德蒙·柏克 / 何兆武 / 许振洲 / 彭刚 The Commercial Press · 2024 Written the year after the outbreak of the French Revolution, this book—together with the work written two years before the Revolution by the English …
On Science and Art cover
Rating 4.5
On Science and Art Jean-Jacques Rousseau / 何兆武 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023 This book is one of Rousseau's representative works. It won the gold medal in 1749 in the prize essay competition announced by the Dijon Academy in Fr…
Introduction to Western Philosophy cover
Rating 3.8
Introduction to Western Philosophy 何兆武 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023 This book is based on three lectures Mr. He Zhaowu gave in 2002 to undergraduate students in the Department of Chinese at Tsinghua University. In thes…
A History of Western Philosophy (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
A History of Western Philosophy (2 Volumes) 勃特兰·罗素 / 何兆武 / 李约瑟 The Commercial Press · 2022 Volume One of A History of Western Philosophy covers ancient philosophy and Catholic philosophy, while Volume Two covers modern philosophy. Since anci…

Publishers

Shanghai People's Publishing HousePeking University PressThe Commercial Press