The book of the famous historian of philosophy Wolfgang Röd presents a wide panorama of the historical development of world philosophy throughout the 19th-20th centuries (from the completion of classical German philosophy to the present day). This volume, as before it, published "The Path of Philosophy: from the 17th to the 19th Century" (K., 2009), is the author's generalization of the prepared prof. a fundamental 14-volume history of philosophical thought. The text successfully combines conceptuality and depth with clarity, laconicism and stylistic dexterity of presentation. In addition to thoroughly covering all significant philosophical phenomena and events from the middle of the 19th century, this publication contains a separate essay on the development of philosophy in recent decades, written by V. Rood specifically for the Ukrainian publication and absent even in the last German reprint of 2009. In terms of its range of topics, the book is interesting not only for philosophers, political scientists, historians, lawyers, but also useful to everyone who is not indifferent to the ups and downs of science, society and culture in the XVII-XIX-XIX-XX centuries.