This is the twenty-first volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works
of John Locke. The series aims to provide authoritative critical
editions of all the writings of one of the most important
intellectuals in the early-modern Anglophone world. The present volume
completes the Correspondence edited by the late E. S. de Beer,
published between 1976 and 1989. It contains some 300 documents: newly
discovered or augmented, or newly collected, letters by or to Locke,
or between his close associates. New finds have emerged from archives
worldwide; previously known letters are now improved from new
manuscripts or supplemented by enclosures that had become detached
from them; 'epistles dedicatory' in books by Locke or addressed to him
are collected; third-party letters with direct bearing on Locke are
included; as also Locke's agreements with publishers for the printing
of his books. The volume covers Locke's manifold interests, from
childrearing to medicine to cartography; from the exercise of
patronage to the political economy of England's burgeoning empire;
from the management of his Somerset tenants to relations with fellow
philosopher Damaris Masham; from a trial for heresy to surveillance
letters when Locke was suspect; from book collecting to calendrical
reform. Locke's critics and vindicators are here, attacking and
defending his published works. Considerable material has come to light
bearing on Locke's encounters with Carolina and policies when a
founding member of the Board of Trade and Plantations. The volume is
supported by Mark Goldie's introduction and by an extensive
explanatory editorial apparatus.
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Volume IX, Supplement
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780192888785
Publisert
2023
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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