Claire Rydell Arcenas

America's Philosopher

John Locke in American Intellectual Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Americaâ¿s Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history.   The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632â¿1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on issues of identity, republicanism, and the nature of knowledge itself. Claire Rydell Arcenasâ¿s new book tells the story of Americansâ¿ longstanding yet ever-mutable obsession with this English thinkerâ¿s ideas, a saga whose most recent manifestations have found the so-called Father of Liberalism held up as a right-wing icon. The first book to detail Lockeâ¿s trans-Atlantic influence from the eighteenth century until today, Americaâ¿s Philosopher shows how and why interpretations of his ideas have captivated Americans in ways few other philosophersâ¿from any nationâ¿ever have. As Arcenas makes clear, each generation has essentially remade Locke in its own image, taking inspiration and transmuting his ideas to suit the needs of the particular historical moment. Drawing from a host of vernacular sources to illuminate Lockeâ¿s often contradictory impact on American daily and intellectual life from before the Revolutionary War to the present, Arcenas delivers a pathbreaking work in the history of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 229mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780226829333
• ISBN-10: 0226829332
• Artikelnr.: 67824522

Autorenporträt

Claire Rydell Arcenas is associate professor of history at the University of Montana.