Witcraft : the invention of philosophy in English
Ree, Jonathan2019
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In Witcraft Jonathan Rée offers compelling intellectual portraits of celebrated British and American philosophers such as Locke, Hume, Emerson, Mill and James. But he also does much more. He draws attention to the philosophical work of literary authors like William Hazlitt and George Eliot, and dozens of others now largely forgotten, while paying tribute to the hundreds of ordinary men and women who engaged with philosophy while getting on with the rest of their lives. Philosophers in Britain and America have often been regarded as narrow-minded and pedestrian compared to their counterparts in continental Europe: this lively and eventful book reveals them instead as colourful, diverse, inventive and cosmopolitan. Philosophy, in Rée's interpretation, turns out to be not the work of a few canonical old men, but of masses of ordinary people who have insisted on thinking for themselves, and reaching their own conclusions about religion, politics, art and everything else. 'We English men have wits', as Ralph Lever wrote in the sixteenth century. The history of philosophy will never look the same again.
Main title:
Witcraft : the invention of philosophy in English / Jonathan Rée.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
xii, 746 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published by Allen Lane 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141027418
Dewey class:
192
Language:
English
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BRN:
368219
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 192 REE | Available |