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Description

1. xiii, 483 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "Explores the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity - two fundamendtal features of human subjectivity - as it developed in early modern philosophy. Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of these features as they were conceived in the sevententh and eighteenth centuries. He explains the arguments of thinkers such as Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Wolff, and Hume, as well as their early critics, followers, and other philosophical contemporaries, and situates them within their historical contexts. Interest in the issues of self-consciousness and personal identity is in many ways characteristic [of] and even central to early modern thought, but Thiel argues here that this is also an interest that continues to this day, in a form still strongly influenced by the conceptual frameworks of early modern thought. In this book he attempts to broaden the scope of the treatment of these issues considerably, covering more than a hundred years of philosophical debate in France, Britain, and Germany while remaining attentive to the details of the arguments under scrutiny and discussing alternative interpretations in many cases"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket.

Alternative title

1. Self-consciousness and personal identity from Descartes to Hume

Subject

1. Identity (Philosophical concept) > History
2. Self-consciousness (Awareness) > History
3. Philosophy, European > 17th century
4. Philosophy, European > 18th century

Contents

1. 1. The seventeenth-century background -- 2. Locke's subjectivist revolution -- 3. Problems with Locke : critique and defence -- 4. Subjectivity and immaterialist metaphysics of the mind -- 5. Substance, apperception, and identity : Leibniz, Wolff, and beyond -- 6. Bundles and selves : Hume in context.

Call number

1. JFE 12-393

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [438]-470) and index.

Author

1. Thiel, Udo, 1954-

Title

1. The early modern subject : self-consciousness and personal identity from Descartes to Hume / Udo Thiel.

Imprint

1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [438]-470) and index.

ISBN

1. 9780199542499
2. 019954249X

Research call number

1. JFE 12-393