Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science |
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| Author:
| Walmsley, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61148-182-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2003 |
| Publisher: | Bucknell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $96.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.