Sets the empiricists - such as Locke, Berkeley, and Hume - in their contemporary and cultural context, covers their debates with the rationalists, and highlights their significance to 20th-century thinking.[...]

This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Roger Woolhouse interweaves a[...]