Notes of Me - Roger North

Notes of Me

The Autobiography of Roger North

(Autor)

Peter Millard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
384 Seiten
2000
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-4471-6 (ISBN)
87,25 inkl. MwSt
North (1651–1734) makes lively forays into the worlds of natural philosophy, Christian stoicism, Cartesian science, architecture, music, education, and James II’s treatment of the Protestant courtiers.
Roger North was an English writer, lawyer, and polymath. In this autobiography, he wanders the intellectual, political, and cultural fields of Restoration England, mapping the state of his country and the state of his selfhood. By describing the multifarious currents affecting his life, North (1653-1734) makes lively forays into the worlds of natural philosophy, Christian stoicism, Cartesian science, architecture, music, education, and James II's treatment of the Protestant courtiers, while recounting his upbringing in an impoverished noble family, his education at Cambridge, and his career as a successful lawyer. Modern readers will find his sympathetic account of witch trials particularly intriguing.


This document, fascinating as a part of the history of self-awareness as well as the history of the period from a Tory, anti-Newtonian, high-church perspective, has, until now, only been available in a corrupted nineteenth-century publication. Peter Millard's edition contains full annotations that provide historical context and include references to North's other works. The introduction elucidates the current scholarly interest in North's precocious development of a more integrated theory of the psycho-physical nature of human cognition, and reveals the autobiography as the key necessary to understanding North's ideas.

Peter MIllard was Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan. He had previously edited Roger North's biography of his brother, The Life of Dr. John North.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.8.2000
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 236 mm
Gewicht 686 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8020-4471-9 / 0802044719
ISBN-13 978-0-8020-4471-6 / 9780802044716
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