Philosophy and the Book - Early Modern Figures of Material Inscription

Zusammenfassung A study of the relationship between early modern European philosophy and the history of the book. It examines the philosophical mobilization of metaphors for print, inscription, reading and knowledge organization in early modern philosophical texts in continental Europe.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Infinite Mechanism and the Allegorical Library
2. Encyclopedic Method and the Uninterrupted Ocean
3. The Materialist Encyclopedia
4. Reading and Repetition
5. The Body and the Book
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Daniel Selcer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Selcer
• Assisted by: Hugh J. Silverman (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2010
• EAN: 9781441113214
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-1321-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cul; Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cul; Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day