Willey, Basil [1897-1978]
The Eighteenth Century Background : Studies on the Idea of Nature in the Thought of the Period
London, Chatto & Windus, 1964. 9th impression, orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 22xd14cm, vii,302 pp.. Binding corner bumps. Good.
¶ Contents: The Turn of the Cerntury; The Wisdom of God in the Creation; Cosmic Toryism; Natural Morality - Shaftesbury; Joseph Butler; 'Nature' in Nature; David Hume, Defender of 'Nature' Against 'Reason'; David Hartley & Nature's Education; Holbach's Systeme de la Nature; Joseph Priestley & the Socinian Moonlight; 'Nature' in Revolution & Reaction; 'Nature' in Wordsworth.
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Keywords: Intellectual History, Eighteenth Century, Natural Theology, Philosophy, English Literature, Literary Criticism, Naturalism Nature, ,