The Seventeenth Century Background : : Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion /

The Seventeenth Century Background : : Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion / / Basil Willey.

Designed to furnish the reader of 17th century literature with an overview of the intellectual background of the period by looking at the works of Browne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Glanville, and Locke.

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Willey, Basil,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1952]
©1952
Year of Publication:1952
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • CHAPTER I. The Rejection of Scholasticism
  • CHAPTER II. Bacon and the Rehabilitation of Nature
  • CHAPTER III. Sir Thomas Browne
  • CHAPTER IV. On Scriptural Interpretation
  • CHAPTER V. The Philosophical Quest for Truth
  • CHAPTER VI. The Philosophical Quest for Truth
  • CHAPTER VII. Rational Theology
  • CHAPTER VIII. Rational Theology
  • CHAPTER IX. Joseph Glanvill (1636-80)
  • CHAPTER X. The Heroic Poem in a Scientific Age
  • CHAPTER XI. John Locke
  • CHAPTER XXI. POSTSCRIPT
  • INDEX

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