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Recovering Bishop Berkeley: Virtue and Society in the Anglo-Irish Context (2010)

Contributor(s): Breuninger, S (Author)

ISBN: 9780230102804

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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Pub Date: May 14, 2010

Dewey: 192

LCCN: 2009039955

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 8.30" L x 5.60" W ( 0.85 lbs) 243 pages

Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

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Description: Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could play crucial roles in alleviating these problems.

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"Recovering Bishop Berkeley goes some way toward dispelling the notion of Berkeley as a disconnected, abstract philosopher and recovering the bishop who was very much engaged by the social and economic questions of his day." The Scriblerian

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