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Title The philosopher in early modern Europe : the nature of a contested identity / edited by Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger and Ian Hunter
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages)
Series Ideas in context ; 77
Ideas in context ; 77
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The persona of the natural philosopher; CHAPTER 2 The university philosopher in early modern Germany; CHAPTER 3 The persona of the philosopher and the rhetorics of office in early modern England; CHAPTER 4 From Sir Thomas More to Robert Burton: the laughing philosopher in the early modern period; CHAPTER 5 Hobbes, the universities, and the history of philosophy; CHAPTER 6 The judicial persona in historical context: the case of Matthew Hale
Summary This collection of essays by leading figures in philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher and to the institutional and political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Philosophers -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Philosophers -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Philosophy, European -- 16th century
Philosophy, European -- 17th century
Philosophy -- Practice -- History -- 16th century
Philosophy -- Practice -- History -- 17th century
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Philosophers.
Philosophy, European.
Philosoph
Europe.
Europa
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Condren, Conal
Gaukroger, Stephen
Hunter, Ian, 1949-
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