Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV: The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism

Parkinson, G.H.R. (ed)

ISBN 10: 0415053781 / ISBN 13: 9780415053785

Published by Routledge, London, England, 1993

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xxix, 444pp. Heavy multi-colour highlighting, inked scoring, inked marginalia to pp1-32, pp349-364, inked notations to blank pages and rear flyleaves. Blue endpapers. Dark blue cloth w crisp gilt lettering to cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Heavily marked but still a sound reading copy. From the series, The Routledge History of Philosophy, Volume IV. This volume covers a period of 350 years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV: The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism
• Publisher: Routledge, London, England
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415053781
• ISBN 13: 9780415053785
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First U.K. Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

The philosophy discussed in this volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy. The chief topics are Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism - in particular Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The volume does not deal with these movements exclusively, but places them within a wider intellectual context. It considers the scholastic thought with which Renaissance philosophy interacted; it also considers the thought of seventeenth century philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes and Gassendi, who were not rationalists but whose thought elicited responses from the rationalists. It considers, too, the important topic of the rise of modern science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and its relations to the philosophy of the period. This volume provides a broad, scholarly introduction to this period for students of philosophy and related disciplines, as well as some original interpretations of these authors. It includes a glossary of technical terms and a chronological table of philosophical, scientific and other cultural events.

About the Author

G. H. R. Parkinson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading. He is the General Editor of An Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1988).