The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521866464 ISBN 13 : 9780521866460

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place.

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À propos de l'auteur

Conal Condren is Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales, and a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences. Stephen Gaukroger presently holds an ARC Professorial Fellowship and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Ian Hunter is a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy and a research professor in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521866464
• ISBN 13: 9780521866460
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Éditeur: Condren Conal, Gaukroger Stephen, Hunter Ian
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