John Locke. Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings. Volume 1: Drafts A and B

Locke, John; Nidditch, Peter H.; Rogers, G.A.J.

ISBN 10: 0198245459 / ISBN 13: 9780198245452

Published by Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990

About this Item

cloth, dustjacket, 8vo xxvi+299 pp., frontispiece portrait first of three volumes; containing the two earliest konwn drafts of the Essay, both written in 1671; accurate version of locke's text, with a record of all his changes in notes; very good condition (unused).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Locke. Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings. Volume 1: Drafts A and B
• Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198245459
• ISBN 13: 9780198245452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This volume is the first of three which will contain all of Locke's extant writings on philosophy which relate to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, other than those contained in volumes of the Clarendon Edition of John Locke such as the Correspondence. The book contains the two earliest known drafts of the Essay, both written in 1671, and provides for the first time an accurate version of Locke's text together with a record of virtually all his changes, in notes at the foot of each page.

About the Author

John Locke (1632-1704) was an influential English philosopher. Peter H. Nidditch is at University of Sheffield. G. A. J. Rogers is at University of Keele.