Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary

by A.P. Martinich (Editor), Fritz Allhoff (Editor), Anand Jayprakash Vaidya (Editor)

Part of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of early modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of western thought.

Genres: Philosophy

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2007

About the author

A. P. Martinich is an analytic philosopher at the University of Texas at Austin. His area of interest is the nature and practice of interpretation; history of modern philosophy; the philosophy of language and religion and the history of political thought. He is considered a foremost authority on Thomas Hobbes.

Reviews

[Imlac · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good selection of seminal texts from the early modern period of Philosophy (roughly 1500 to 1700), accompanied by useful commentary by Martinich. Beware, however, of Martinich's bizzare and unidiomatic English:

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne (1533-92), born at the chateau of Montaigne, was the son of a rich Catholic landowner and a mother of Jewish descent.