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Title: The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Condition: New
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton
ISBN-10: 1878822640
EAN: 9781878822642
ISBN: 9781878822642
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 12/01/1996
Description: Essays on philosophy and intellectual history, focusing in particular on John Locke.This collection of essays by well-known international scholars working in the history of philosophy and intellectual history honours the distinguished career of John Yolton, their subjects reflecting many of his central interests,particularly John Locke. Topics include Locke and his idea of thinking matter; the recovery of Locke's library; his understanding of the Law of Nature and its implications; Berkeley's philosophy and his conception of common sense; the connection between reason and revelation in some early eighteenth-century writers; and the post-modernist crude misrepresentation of the Enlightenment. G.A.J. ROGERS is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University; SYLVANA TOMASELLIis a former research fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Contributors: SYLVANA TOMASELLI, FRANCOIS DUCHESNEAU, RICHARD H. POPKIN, G.A.J. ROGERS, PETER LASLETT, MICHAEL AYRES, GENVIEVE BRYKMAN, M.A. STEWART, ARTHUR WAINWRIGHT, JOHN STEPHENS, JOHN P. WRIGHT, SHADIA B. DRURY
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 579mm
Item Length: 386mm
Contributor: G.A.J. Rogers (Edited by), Sylvana Tomaselli (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Item Weight: 1g
Author: G.A.J. Rogers
Topic: Society & Culture
Release Year: 1996

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