Garrett - The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION
TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

The eighteenth century is one of the most important periods in the history of Western philosophy, witnessing the philosophical, scientific, religious, and social and political change of the Enlightenment on a massive scale. In spite of this, there are few overviews of the philosophy of the period as a whole.

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy is an authoritative survey and assessment of this momentous period, covering major thinkers, topics, and movements in eighteenth-century philosophy. The thirty-five specially commissioned chapters by a team of international contributors offer an extensive treatment of the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century metaphysics and philosophy of religion, mind, knowledge, perception, passions, morals, politics, and aesthetics. A section on Philosophy in Relation to the Arts and Sciences shows the connections between philosophy and other areas of inquiry, and the final part is devoted to major figures of the period: Hume, Kant, and Rousseau.

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy provides students of philosophy and those from related disciplines with an outstanding and accessible guide to this fascinating period in the history of philosophy.

Aaron Garrett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. He has published books on Spinoza and Berkeley, articles on many topics in early modern philosophy, and is the co-editor (with James A. Harris) of the Oxford History of Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy. He is currently working on two books on moral philosophy in the early modern period: The View from the Devils Mountain: Seventeenth-Century Moral Philosophy and The Reasonableness of Morality.

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