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Article: Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy.
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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William Walker's Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy is an ambitious effort to reread the intellectual archaeologies of Enlightenment thought and Romanticism. Walker challenges conventional views of eighteenth-century empiricism that reduce Locke's philosophy to a rejection of Renaissance and seventeenth-century rhetorical practices and thereby turn his Essay Concerning Human Understanding into the disembodied ruling idea, spirit, or essence of literary works in the eighteenth century. In some ways, the linchpin of Walker's argument is the insight that the crucial, constitutive metaphors for mind in the Essay are marked by a "massive terminological overlap" (p. 50) ...
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