John Locke and the rhetoric of modernity
"John Locke and the Rhetoric of Modernity corrects "a persistent distortion in our understanding of Locke and thus in our understanding of what it means to be modern." Philip Vogt reassesses specific aspects of Lockean rhetoric; the theory and use of analogy, the characteristic tropes, and the topoi that connected Locke with his original and later audiences. He argues that Locke was not, as is commonly supposed, opposed to figuration in language; that he did not rely on scientific societies to police linguistic innovation in science, but trusted instead the authority of normal usage; that he was not a naive empiricist who viewed the mind as a tabula rasa; and that his commitment to the mechanical philosophical was not unconditional."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2008
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, ©2008
xiv, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780739123560, 0739123564
191206817
Introduction
The divine analogy
The vessel of the mind
The edenic topos
Picturing modernity
Conclusion