/lit/ - Literature

>>8752968
Pretty much. Kenny's book is more modern and less...well, let's just say it's more modern.

The other big one, if OP really has some time on their hands, is the Copleston series, all eleven volumes. I know no one who has actually read this, but it's there, and it will be there long after everyone in this thread is dead.

For cozy mode, Will Durant. Not the usual go-to "The Story of Philosophy," but the even rarer (possibly out of print, and wonderfully old-school) "Mansions of Philosophy," which is so fucking snug it will basically make you feel like you are reading The Red Book of Westmarch. People like to shit on Durant because he's not really an academic, but the man is cozy af and let's face it, in philosophy that's kind of unusual. Obviously.

>write a modern book specifically to update on Russel's volume
>actually know your subject matter
>isn't biased as shit

>people still pick Russel instead