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Locke's Political Liberty - Readings and Misreadings (Paperback)
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Locke's Political Liberty - Readings and Misreadings (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2009:04
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The canonical image of John Locke as one of the first philosophes
is so deeply engrained that we could forget that he belonged to a
very different historico-political context. His influence on
Enlightenment thought, not least that of his theories of political
liberty, has been the subject of widespread debate. In Locke's
political liberty: readings and misreadings a team of renowned
international scholars re-evaluates Locke's heritage in the
eighteenth century and the ways it was used. Moving beyond
reductive conceptions of Locke as either central or peripheral to
the development of Enlightenment thought, historians and
philosophers explore how his writings are invoked, exploited or
distorted in eighteenth-century reflections on liberty. Analyses of
his reception in England and France bring out underlying conceptual
differences between the two nations, and extend an ongoing debate
about the difficulty of characterising national political
epistemologies. The traditional Anglocentric view of Locke and his
influence is demystified, and what emerges is a new, more diverse
vision of the reception of his political thinking throughout
Europe. Of interest to political philosophers and historians,
Locke's political liberty: readings and misreadings reveals how the
issues identified by Locke recur in our own debates about
difference, identity and property - his work is as resonant today
as it has ever been.
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