"The Great Ocean of Knowledge": The Influence of Travel Literature on the Work of John Locke

ISBN-13: 9789004181151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 338 str.

Ann Talbot

Opis

This book explores the way in which, working within the investigative tradition associated with the Royal Society, the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) used travellers' reports to develop a form of comparative social anthropology which was to inform his major philosophical works.