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

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

Condren, Conal
Gaukroger, Stephen
Hunter, Ian

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Series: Ideas in Context, Book 77

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521123895
ISBN13: 9780521123891
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 17 2009
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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