The Bloomsbury Companion to Locke
S.-J. Savonius-Wroth (Ed.)
John Locke (1632-1704) was a leading seventeenth-century philosopher and widely considered to be the first of the British Empiricists. One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, his major works and central ideas have had a significant impact on the development of key areas in political philosophy and epistemology.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Locke is a comprehensive and accessible resource to Locke's life and work, his contemporaries and critics, his key concepts and enduring influence. Including more than 80 specially commissioned entries, written by a team of leading experts, topics range from absolutism to toleration, from education to socinianism. The Companion features a series of indispensable research tools including a chronology of Locke’s life, an A-Z of his key concepts and synopses of his principal writings.
This is an essential resource for anyone working in the fields of Locke Studies and Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.
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Locke Studies
The Continuum Companion is encyclopaedic not just in format but in range... The editors have assembled a truly international team of scholars capable of writing authoritatively about topics as diverse as Socinianism and the reform of the coinage... This volume is indeed a generally faithful companion to Locke studies which even serious scholars will be glad to have by their side.
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
This is an extremely useful volume, both for the student and for the researcher, and could be used as a helpful support for those teaching in higher education.
History
This new volume is appropriate for advanced researchers looking into Locke's non philosophical interests and the intellectual climate that formed and was formed by his work. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty.
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