John Locke: Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings

John Locke

ISBN 10: 0198245459 / ISBN 13: 9780198245452

Published by Oxford University Press, GB, 1990

About this Item

This is the first of three volumes which will contain all of Locke's extant philosophical writings relating to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, not included in other Clarendon editions like the Correspondence. It contains the earliest known drafts of the Essay, Drafts A and B, both written in 1671, and provides for the first time an accurate version of Locke's text. Virtually all his changes are recorded in footnotes on each page. Peter Nidditch, whose highly acclaimed edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was published in this series in 1975, used pioneering editorial techniques in his compilation of Volume 1. Most of the work was completed before his tragically early death in 1983.Volumes 2 and 3, almost wholly the work of G. A. J. Rogers will contain the third extant draft of the Essay (Draft C), the Epitome and the Conduct of the Understanding. They will also include a History of the Writing of the Essay, together with other shorter writings by Locke.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Locke: Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198245459
• ISBN 13: 9780198245452
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 682 grams

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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.