Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Walmsley
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611481822
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-182-2
• No. of pages: 199
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 245 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 469 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works