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The Rhetoric of Berkeley’s Philosophy

By Peter Walmsley

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0521374138, 9780521374132, 0521028035, 9780521028035, 9780511519130
LCC
B1348 .W35 1990
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1426625 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Pages
220\220
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Whereas previous studies have made George Berkeley (1685-1753) the object of philosophical study, Peter Walmsley assesses Berkeley as a writer, offering rhetorical and literary analyses of Berkeley's four major philosophical texts, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, Alciphron, and Siris. Berkeley emerges from this study as an accomplished stylist who builds structures of affective imagery, creates dramatic voices in his texts, and masters the range of philosophical genres--the treatise, the dialogue, and the essay.

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