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Late Modern Philosophy

Essential Readings with Commentary

Richard McCarty editor Fritz Allhoff editor Elizabeth S Radcliffe editor Anand Jayprakash Vaidya editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:4th Jan '07

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Part of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of late modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of western thought.


  • Gathers together the key texts from the most significant and influential philosophers of the late modern era to provide a thorough introduction to the period.
  • Features the writings of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Kant, Rousseau, Bentham and other leading thinkers.
  • Examines such topics as empiricism, rationalism, and the existence of God.
  • Readings are accompanied by expert commentary from the editors, who are leading scholars in the field.

“This is an excellent anthology with selections that are shrewdly chosen and insightfully introduced, including several in ethics that are unusual but quite important, such as Adam Smith, Richard Price, and Mary Wollstonecraft.”
Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan

“A rich and wisely chosen collection of key eighteenth-century texts, distinctive in covering not only epistemology and metaphysics, but moral and political philosophy.” Kenneth P. Winkler, Wellesley College

ISBN: 9781405146883

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 27mm

Weight: 826g

400 pages