Peter Walmsley

Gebundenes Buch

Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science

Beschreibung

This book shows how, in his enormously influential Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natural philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind.

Autor

Peter Walmsley is an Associate Professor of English at McMaster University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy (1990) and of essays on Locke, Berkeley, Pope, and Elizabeth Hamilton. He is currently working on the cadaver in the English Enlightenment from Joseph Addison to Ann Radcliffe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press Copublishing Division
• Seitenzahl: 199
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 167mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9781611481822
• ISBN-10: 1611481821
• Artikelnr.: 33469835