Witcraft: The Invention Of Philosophy In English Jonathan Ree Penguin Books Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ Astonishing Enjoy Its Riches Slowly And Savour Every Generous Erudite Undogmatic Page\ Boyd Tonkin Financial Times\ We English Men Have Wits Wrote The Clergyman Ralph Lever In 1573 Also Framed Unto Ourselves A Language Witcraft Is Fresh Brilliant History Of How Philosophy Became Established It Presents New Form Philosophical Storytelling Challenges What Jonathan Rée Calls Condescending Smugness\ Traditional Histories Tells Story As Was Lived Practised Embedded Time Place By Women From Many Walks Life Engaged With Debates Culture Their Age Focusing On Rich Works Including Translations He Shows Them To Be Quite Colourful Diverse Inventive Cosmopolitan Continental Counterparts Offers Compelling Intellectual Portraits Not Only Celebrated British American Philosophers Such Hume Emerson Mill James But Remarkable Work Literary Authors William Hazlitt George Eliot Well Carnival Overlooked Characters - Priests Poets Teachers Servants Crofters Thinking For Themselves Reaching Own Conclusions About Religion Politics Art Everything Else Book Adopts Novel Structure Examining Subject At Fifty-Year Intervals Sixteenth Century Twentieth Researched Over Decades Illuminated Quotations Extensive Archival Material Full Stories Personalities Ideas Springing Around Overturns Orthodoxies Celebrates Diversity Vitality Inventiveness Thought Σελίδες: 768 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm