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The Kingdom of Darkness - Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Kingdom of Darkness - Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy (Hardcover)
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In 1500, speculative philosophy lay at the heart of European
intellectual life; by 1700, its role was drastically diminished.
The Kingdom of Darkness tells the story of this momentous
transformation. Dmitri Levitin explores the structural factors
behind this change: the emancipation of natural philosophy from
metaphysics; theologians' growing preference for philology over
philosophy; and a new conception of the limits of the human mind
derived from historical and oriental scholarship, not least
concerning China and Japan. In turn, he shows that the ideas of two
of Europe's most famous thinkers, Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton,
were both the products of this transformation and catalysts for its
success. Drawing on hundreds of sources in many languages, Levitin
traces in unprecedented detail Bayle and Newton's conceptions of
what Thomas Hobbes called The Kingdom of Darkness: a genealogical
vision of how philosophy had corrupted the human mind. Both men
sought to remedy this corruption, and their ideas helped lay the
foundation for the system of knowledge that emerged in the
eighteenth century.
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