Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
Autor Jonathan Réeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 apr 2020
'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and, 'we have also framed unto ourselves a language.'
Witcraftis a fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English. It presents a new form of philosophical storytelling and challenges what Jonathan Rée calls the 'condescending smugness' of traditional histories of philosophy. Rée tells the story of philosophy as it was lived and practised, embedded in its time and place, by men and women from many walks of life, engaged with the debates and culture of their age. And, by focusing on the rich history of works in English, including translations, he shows them to be quite as colourful, diverse, inventive and cosmopolitan as their continental counterparts.
Witcraftoffers new and compelling intellectual portraits not only of celebrated British and American philosophers, such as Hume, Emerson, Mill and James, but also of the remarkable philosophical work of literary authors, such as William Hazlitt and George Eliot, as well as a carnival of overlooked characters - priests and poets, teachers, servants and crofters, thinking for themselves and reaching their own conclusions about religion, politics, art and everything else.
The book adopts a novel structure, examining its subject at fifty-year intervals from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Researched over decades and illuminated by quotations from extensive archival material, it is a book full of stories and personalities as well as ideas, and shows philosophy springing from the life around it.Witcraftoverturns the established orthodoxies of the history of philosophy, and celebrates the diversity, vitality and inventiveness of philosophical thought.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141027418
ISBN-10: 014102741X
Pagini: 768
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 014102741X
Pagini: 768
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Jonathan
Réeis
a
freelance
philosopher
and
historian.
His
previous
books
includePhilosophical
Tales,Proletarian
PhilosophersandI
See
a
Voice.
Recenzii
Rée
spans
a
vast
ocean
of
ideas.
He
introduces
us
to
their
shapers
and
breakers,
and
gently
captains
us
in
50-year
stretches
across
the
seas
of
English-language
thought
with
astonishing
skill
as
both
map-maker
and
way-finder
...
enjoy
its
riches
slowly,
and
savour
every
generous,
erudite
and
undogmatic
page
Rée's book may well be the most fun we've ever had with anglophone philosophy
Dead philosophers, and indeed dead philosophies, here feel alive, and integrated with the rest of history
Witcraftis the story of philosophy in English told in a new way, narrated with relish and considerable wit
Rée's book may well be the most fun we've ever had with anglophone philosophy
Dead philosophers, and indeed dead philosophies, here feel alive, and integrated with the rest of history
Witcraftis the story of philosophy in English told in a new way, narrated with relish and considerable wit