Identity and Difference
John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness
Published on 8. October 2013
208 pages
978-1-78168-503-7 (ISBN)
Description
John Locke's foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher? Identity and Difference argues for reassessing this canonical figure. Closely examining the "treatise on identity" added to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Etienne Balibar demonstrates Locke's role in the formation of two concepts central to the metaphysics of the subject-consciousness and the self-and the complex philosophical, legal, moral and political nature of his terms.
With an accompanying essay by Stella Sandford, situating Balibar's reading of Locke in the history of the reception of the Essay and within Balibar's other writings on "the subject," Identity and Difference rethinks a crucial moment in the history of Western philosophy.
With an accompanying essay by Stella Sandford, situating Balibar's reading of Locke in the history of the reception of the Essay and within Balibar's other writings on "the subject," Identity and Difference rethinks a crucial moment in the history of Western philosophy.
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Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-503-7 (9781781685037)
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¿tienne Balibar is the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. A leading exponent of French radical philosophy, Balibar is the author of Spinoza and Politics and co-author of Race, Nation and Class and Reading Capital.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition, Etienne Balibar
- Introduction. The Incomplete Locke: Balibar, Locke and the Philosophy of the Subject, Stella Sandford
- I. Locke's Treatise on Identity
- 1. The Enigma of Translation: Pierre Coste's 'Expedient'
- 2. The European Invention of Consciousness
- 3. Mind, Consciousness, Identity: The Isolation of the 'Mental' in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- 4. The Subject Consciousness: The Self, or Responsibility
- 5. Interior/Exterior: The Lockean Topography of Consciousness
- II. Lockean Concepts: A Philosophical and Philological Glossary
- III. Postscript: A Note on 'Consciousness/Conscience' in Spinoza's Ethics
- Select Bibliography
