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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      August 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511598531
      9780521466875
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598531
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.723kg, 512 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    This book provides a contextual account of the development of John Locke's political, religious, social and moral thought. It analyses many of Locke's unpublished manuscripts and relatively neglected works as well as the Two Treatises, the Letter Concerning Toleration and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Professor Marshall studies the development of Locke's political thought from absolutism to resistance, and provides significant revisions to current explanations of the immediate contexts and purposes of composition of the Two Treatises. He also sets out major accounts of Locke's moral, social and religious thought both as extremely important subjects in their own right and in order to challenge many scholars' interpretations of their influences on Locke's political thought.

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    "John Marshall's sophisticated new intellectual biography, which draws on unpublished manuscripts and relatively neglected works as well as Locke's better known writings, goes a long way toward making sense of this brilliant but complex thinker. Rather than search for a deeper, underlying consistency in Locke's thought, Marshall explores how Locke came to change his mind so dramatically over the course of his life in response to changing political circumstances, new personal contacts, and (perhaps above all) through his own process of intellectual inquiry....This is an impressive book." Tim Harris, Brown University, Journal of Modern History

    "...[an] erudite, carefully developed study....this is an important work in the history of social, political, and philosophical thought." Journal of Church and State

    "Anyone interested in the relation of theology to the founding father of American liberalism will find this volume essential reading." Theological Studies

    "...at once textually acute and theoretically grand....[a] superb and detailed study..." The Review of Politics

    "...this study is an impressive scholarly achievement and a major contribution to the understanding of Locke's moral and religious thought." Julian H. Franklin, American Historical Review

    "This is a very good book. It presents the historical context in which Locke's doctrine emerged clearly and intelligently....It is also the most careful and comprehensive treatment of Locke's political theology I have read." Edward G. Andrew, Albion

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