Politicized Physics in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza

by Robert J. Roecklein

Book Overview

This book examines the role that natural philosophy (that is, doctrines of physics) plays in the emergence of Early Modern political thought. Robert J. Roecklein argues that the natural philosophy of Early Modernity, especially its indictment of sense perception, constitutes a major political foundation for the more concrete doctrines of political science developed by Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498556531
• ISBN13: 9781498556538
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"