The seventeenth century background : studies in the thought of the age in relation to poetry and religion / by Basil Willey
1950, Fifth Edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Fine cloth copy in a very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #437647
Physical description; viii, 315, [1] pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Partial contents The rejection of scholasticism -- Bacon and the rehabilitation of nature -- Sir Thomas Browne -- On scriptural interpretation -- The philosophical quest for truth -- Descartes -- The philosophical quest for truth -- Hobbes -- Rational theology -- Rational theology -- the Cambridge platonists -- Joseph Glanvill -- The heroic poem in a scientific age -- John Locke -- Postscript: on Wordsworth and the Locke tradition. Subjects; Bacon, Francis 1561-1626. Browne, Thomas Sir 1605-1682. Descartes, René 1596-1650. Glanvill, Joseph 1636-1680. Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert Baron 1583-1648. Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679. Locke, John 1632-1704. Wordsworth, William 1770-1850. 1500-1700. 17th century. 1600-1699. Religious thought 17th century. Theology, Doctrinal Great Britain History. Philosophy, Modern History. English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. English poetry Early modern. Philosophy, Modern. Religious thought. Theology, Doctrinal. Seventeenth century.
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