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Hardcover The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy Book

ISBN: 110883700X

ISBN13: 9781108837002

The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy

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In 1500, speculative philosophy lay at the heart of European intellectual life; by 1700, its role was drastically diminished. The Kingdom of Darkness tells the story of this momentous transformation. Dmitri Levitin explores the structural factors behind this change: the emancipation of natural philosophy from metaphysics; theologians' growing preference for philology over philosophy; and a new conception of the limits of the human mind derived from...

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