The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 1
The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 1

Author: Mark Goldie

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1040247059

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Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats. These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political ideas.

Reason and Authority in the Eighteenth Century
Reason and Authority in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Gerald R. Cragg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1107635055

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Originally published in 1964, this book examines the influence of reason and authority upon English thought in the eighteenth century. The text relates these two concepts to movements in religious and political thought, beginning with Locke's views on faith and reason before going through various areas and finishing with the beginnings of Romanticism. The age of the Enlightenment is seen as constituted, on the one hand, by an attempt to relate all significant intellectual movements to reason and, on the other, an attempt to devise proper restraints on the authority of reason. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in philosophy, social and political thought, and eighteenth-century English history.

Philosophical Incursions into English Literature
Philosophical Incursions into English Literature

Author: John Laird

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1107438349

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Originally published in 1946, this book examines the works of eleven different English authors through a philosophical lens. Laird, who spent the war re-reading English literature, reveals the underlying philosophy of several English classics, including several Shakespearian plays, Robinson Crusoe and Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the philosophical analysis of literature.

Liberty Secured?
Liberty Secured?

Author: James Rees Jones

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780804719889

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The essays in this volume do not claim that the Revolution of 1688-89 in itself constituted an epoch-making event in the history of progress and freedom. Instead, they argue that it marks an important conjunction of many trends, changes, and developments in the years before and after 1688.