The Other Bishop Berkeley: An Exercise in Reenchantment

Costica Bradatan

Published by Fordham University Press 2007

The Other Bishop Berkeley

An Exercise in Reenchantment

Costica Bradatan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293100

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Costica Bradatan proposes a new way of looking at the influential 18th-century Anglo-Irish empiricist and idealist philosopher. He approaches Berkeley's thought from the standpoint of its roots, rather than from how it has come to be viewed since his time. This book will interest scholars working in a wide variety of fields, from philosophy and the history of ideas to comparative literature, utopian studies, religious and medieval studies, and critical theory. This other Berkeley read and wrote alchemical books, daydreamed of "Happy Islands" and the "Earthly Paradise" and depicted them carefully, designed utopian projects and spent years trying to put them into practice. Bradatan discovers a thinker deeply rooted in Platonic, mystical, and sometimes esoteric traditions, who saw salvation as philosophy and practiced philosophy as a way of life. This book uncovers a richer Berkeley, a more profound and spectacular one, and, it is hoped, a more truthful one.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. George Berkeley and the Platonic Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
2. Philosophy as Palimpsest: Archetypal Knowledge in Siris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. George Berkeley and the Liber Mundi Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. George Berkeley and the Alchemical Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. Philosophy as Apologetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
6. George Berkeley’s ‘‘Bermuda Project’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
7. George Berkeley and Catharism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 248

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823293100