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Philosophy and the book : early modern figures of material inscription / Daniel Selcer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theoryLondon : Continuum, ©2010Description: xiii, 258 pages. : 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781441150097
Subject(s):
Contents:
Infinite mechanism and the allegorical library -- Encyclopedic method and the uninterrupted ocean -- The materialist encyclopedia -- Reading and repetition -- The body and the book.
Summary: Philosophy and the Book examines the philosophical mobilization of metaphors for print, inscription, reading and knowledge organization in early modern philosophical texts in continental Europe. Primarily engaging with the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Bayle while also touching on Valla, Gassendi, Hobbes, Lamy, and others, the book explores the effect the explosion of early modern print technology, textual distribution and related cultural practices had on the early modern philosophical imagination
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Formerly CIP. Uk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Infinite mechanism and the allegorical library -- Encyclopedic method and the uninterrupted ocean -- The materialist encyclopedia -- Reading and repetition -- The body and the book.

Philosophy and the Book examines the philosophical mobilization of metaphors for print, inscription, reading and knowledge organization in early modern philosophical texts in continental Europe. Primarily engaging with the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Bayle while also touching on Valla, Gassendi, Hobbes, Lamy, and others, the book explores the effect the explosion of early modern print technology, textual distribution and related cultural practices had on the early modern philosophical imagination

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