Title
The Other Bishop Berkeley : An Exercise in Reenchantment / Costica Bradatan.
ISBN
9780823293100
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (248 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823293100 doi
Summary
Costica Bradatan proposes a new way of looking at the influential 18th-century Anglo-Irish empiricist and idealist philosopher. He approaches Berkeley's thought from the standpoint of its roots, rather than from how it has come to be viewed since his time. This book will interest scholars working in a wide variety of fields, from philosophy and the history of ideas to comparative literature, utopian studies, religious and medieval studies, and critical theory. This other Berkeley read and wrote alchemical books, daydreamed of "Happy Islands" and the "Earthly Paradise" and depicted them carefully, designed utopian projects and spent years trying to put them into practice. Bradatan discovers a thinker deeply rooted in Platonic, mystical, and sometimes esoteric traditions, who saw salvation as philosophy and practiced philosophy as a way of life. This book uncovers a richer Berkeley, a more profound and spectacular one, and, it is hoped, a more truthful one.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Available in Other Form
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. George Berkeley and the Platonic Tradition
2. Philosophy as Palimpsest: Archetypal Knowledge in Siris
3. George Berkeley and the Liber Mundi Tradition
4. George Berkeley and the Alchemical Tradition
5. Philosophy as Apologetics
6. George Berkeley's ''Bermuda Project''
7. George Berkeley and Catharism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
