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Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science - Histories of Philosophy in England, c. 1640-1700 (Paperback)
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Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science - Histories of Philosophy in England, c. 1640-1700 (Paperback)
Series: Ideas in Context
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Seventeenth-century England has long been heralded as the
birthplace of a so-called 'new' philosophy. Yet what contemporaries
might have understood by 'old' philosophy has been little
appreciated. In this book Dmitri Levitin examines English attitudes
to ancient philosophy in unprecedented depth, demonstrating the
centrality of engagement with the history of philosophy to almost
all educated persons, whether scholars, clerics, or philosophers
themselves, and aligning English intellectual culture closely to
that of continental Europe. Drawing on a vast array of sources,
Levitin challenges the assumption that interest in ancient ideas
was limited to out-of-date 'ancients' or was in some sense
'pre-enlightened'; indeed, much of the intellectual justification
for the new philosophy came from re-writing its history. At the
same time, the deep investment of English scholars in pioneering
forms of late humanist erudition led them to develop some of the
most innovative narratives of ancient philosophy in early modern
Europe.
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