Neo-Scholasticism was a philosophical and theological school of thought that arose in the mid-nineteenth century as a revival of medieval scholasticism, especially the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In the later decades of the century and well into the 20th century Neo-Scholasticism dominated the Catholic intellectual milieu.Neo-Scholasticism was a philosophical and theological school of thought that arose in the mid–-nineteenth century as a revival of medieval scholasticism, especially of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In the later decades of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, Neo-Scholasticism dominated the Catholic intellectual milieu.

Well known and largely used in the Catholic schools of Germany, Albert Stöckl’s Handbook of the History of Philosophy: Pre-Scholastic and Scholastic Philosophy presents the history of philosophy up to the Scholastic period through a Catholic lens. Readers will find in this work a fullness of information on the schools of philosophy that have grown up within the Church or stood in close relation with her teaching, which here receive explicit and adequate notice.