Locke : a biography

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Title:

Locke : a biography

Author:

Woolhouse, R. S.

ISBN:

9780521817868

Personal Author:

Woolhouse, R. S.

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

xviii, 528 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Upbringing and education (1632-1658) -- College offices and medical studies (1659-1667) -- Exeter House, London (1666-1675) : "one accident in my life" -- France (November 1675-May 1679) -- Thanet House and London (May 1679-September 1683) -- Holland and the United Provinces (1683-1688) -- London (February 1689-December 1690) -- Oates (January 1691-December 1695) -- "A gentleman's duty" (December 1695-March 1700) -- "Laying down his place" (March 1700-October 1704)

Abstract:

"This is the first comprehensive biography in half a century of John Locke. Against a historical background of the English Civil War, religious intolerance and bigotry, anti-Government struggles and plots, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Roger Woolhouse interweaves the events of Locke's rather varied life with detailed expositions of his developing ideas in medicine, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and economics. Chronologically systemic in its coverage, this volume offers an account and explanation of Locke's ideas and their reception, while entering at large into the details of his private life of intimate friendships and warm companionship, and of the increasingly visible public life into which, despite himself, he was drawn - Oxford tutor, associate of Shaftesbury, dutiful civil servant."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Locke, John, 1632-1704.

Subject Term:

Philosophers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

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This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Roger Woolhouse interweaves an account of Locke's life with a summary and development of his ideas in theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, medicine, economics, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. Systematic and encyclopedic in its coverage, Woolhouse's biography offers both an account and explanation of Locke's ideas, while treating seriously his emotional relationship with Elinor Parry. Based on broad research and many years of study of Locke's philosophy, this volume is an authoritative biography on one of the most significant early modern philosophers.