
Author/Contributor(s): | Kenshur, Oscar |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Date: | 11/01/1993 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Condition: | NEW |
While striving to resolve dilemmas occasioned by conflicting intellectual and political commitments, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers often relied upon ideas originally used by their enemies to support very different claims. Thus, they engaged in what Kenshur calls intellectual co-optation. In exploring the ways in which Dryden, Bayle, Voltaire, Johnson, and others used this technique, Kenshur presents a historical landscape distinctly different from the one constructed by much contemporary theory.