The philosopher in early modern Europe : the nature of a contested identity / edited by Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger and Ian Hunter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Condren, Conal, editor.

Gaukroger, Stephen, editor.

Hunter, Ian, 1949- editor.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 77.

Ideas in context ; 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers--Europe--History--16th century.

Philosophers.

Philosophers--Europe--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The persona of the natural philosopher / Stephen Gaukroger

The university philosopher in early modern Germany / Ian Hunter

The persona of the philosopher and the rhetorics of office in early modern England / Conal Condren

From Sir Thomas More to Robert Burton: the laughing philosopher in the early modern period / Catherine Curtis

Hobbes, the universities and the history of philosophy / R.W. Serjeantson

The judicial persona in historical context: the case of Matthew Hale / David Saunders

Persona and office: Althusius on the formation of magistrates and councillors / Robert von Friedeburg

Descartes as sage: spiritual askesis in Cartesian philosophy / John Cottingham

The natural philosopher and the virtues / Peter Harrison

Fictions of a feminine philosophical persona: Christine de Pisan, Margaret Cavendish and philosophia lost / Karen Green and Jacqueline Broad

John Locke and polite philosophy / Richard Yeo.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17030-3

1-280-70376-8

0-511-25017-7

0-511-24911-X

0-511-25068-1

0-511-31888-X

0-511-49046-1

0-511-24966-7

OCLC:

252531739