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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      01 December 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511519123
      9780521451055
      9780521024747
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519123
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.368kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British History after 1450, Literary Theory, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (22)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British History after 1450, Literary Theory, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (22)
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    William Walker's original analysis of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He presents Locke as a foundational figure who defines the epistemological and ontological ground on which eighteenth-century and Romantic literature operate and eventually diverge. He is revealed as a crucial figure for emerging modernity, less the familiar empiricist innovator and more the proto-Nietzschean thinker whose text fosters hitherto unsuspected instabilities and promotes a new kind of rhetorical force to counterbalance them. Walker's reading of Locke is at once finely attentive to the text and engagingly resourceful in placing the Essay in its broadest philosophical and historical context.

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