The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley’s Three Dialogues (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books)

The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley’s Three Dialogues is an engaging introduction to the last of a trio of works that cemented Berkeley’s position as one of the truly great philosophers of the western canon. Berkeley’s distinctive idealist philosophy has been a challenge and inspiration for thinkers ever since.

Written for readers approaching this seminal work for the first time, this book:

• provides the philosophical context in which Three Dialogues was written;
• critically discusses the arguments in each of the Three Dialogues; and
• examines some of the principal disputes concerning the interpretation of his work.

The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley’s Three Dialogues offers a clear and comprehensive guide to this ground-breaking volume and includes further reading sections at the end of each chapter. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this influential work.

Stefan Storrie has published extensively on early modern philosophy, and Berkeley in particular. He is the editor of Berkeley’s Three Dialogues: New Essays (2018) and, with Ezio Di Nucci, 1984 and Philosophy (2018).