Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Christopher Fox

Through a wide-ranging study of primary sources, Christopher Fox identifies and details a decisive moment in the history of the concept of the self. A key figure here is John Locke; the crucial document, his chapter on "Identity and Diversity" added to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1694). Locke's new concept of "identity of consciousness" was hotly debated for the next half century in philosophical, theological, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520058593
• ISBN13: 9780520058590
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.