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The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity

By Stephen Gaukroger , Conal Condren , Ian Hunter

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521866464, 9780521866460
LCC
B801 .P43 2006
Open Library ID
OL17158053M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2075214 bytes)
Series
Ideas in Context
Edition
1
Pages
300\303
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place.

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