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William Walker's analysis of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He is revealed as a crucial figure for emerging modernity, less the familiar empiricist innovator and more a proto-Nietzschean thinker. Walker's reading of Locke is finely attentive to the text and resourceful in placing the Essay in its broadest philosophical and historical context.
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Bridges the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussions of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding.
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William Walker's original analysis of John Locke's An Essay concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work.
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William Walkerâs analysis of John Lockeâs An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Lockeâs importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He is revealed as a crucial figure for emerging modernity, less the familiar empiricist innovator and more the proto-Nietzschean thinker. Walkerâs reading of Locke is finely attentive to the text and resourceful in placing the Essay in its broadest philosophical and historical context.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Locke, literary criticism and philosophy; Part II. Mind: 2. Substance, space, labor, and property; 3. Acquaintance; 4. Seeing and touching; 5. Force; Part III. Trope: 6. De Man on Locke; 7. Locke and Nietzsche; Part IV. Conclusion: 8. Locke, literary criticism, and philosophy; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.