{"product_id":"george-berkeley-9780691159805","title":"George Berkeley","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"What Jones has revealed is the fascinating combination of chaos and coherence laced through Berkeley’s life.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alex Dean, \u003ci\u003eProspect Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Tom] Jones…presents Berkeley’s life through his voluminous writings, the views of his friends and family, and the opinions of those who encountered him and his writings. The result is a big book, packed with quotations from Berkeley’s works, excerpts from letters, records of journeys and activities , and details about Berkeley’s social an personal life and the people in it. Reading it requires stamina, but the rewards is a better acquaintance with a man who, as the subtitle of the book indicates, lived a life under the influence of his philosophy.\"\u003cb\u003e---Janna Thompson, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tom Jones has written a superb biography about the mind of a reactionary, a powerful thinker whose curiosity about the world was shaped by his religious and political conservatism.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sean Sheehan, \u003ci\u003ePrisma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is so much to like about Tom Jones’s George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life. This new biography is an impressive effort to unearth the whole man: Jones leaves no page unturned, no sermon unsummarized, no piece of Berkelean writing, however obscure, unrevisited. . . . this monumental work will likely remain \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e book on Berkeley for some time.\"\u003cb\u003e---Costica Bradatan, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magisterial.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Lorimer, \u003ci\u003eParadigm Explorer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones’ book is a product of titanic labor and meets the highest standards of intellectual biography. Jones suggests new interpretations of some of Berkeley’s thoughts and notes, finds new biographical materials, and offers a comprehensive approach to the whole body of Berkeley’s thought.\"\u003cb\u003e---Artem Besedin, \u003ci\u003eBerkeley Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones’s biography could not have arrived at a better time, just as public debates on the active participation of Irish people in empire and the slave trade proliferate and intensify. . . . It is easy to “de-commemorate” a thinker . . . it is much more difficult to critically engage with their thought and to gauge their influence, all while remaining conscious of their shortcomings. In this, as in much else, Jones provides a model.\"\u003cb\u003e---Adam Coleman, \u003ci\u003eDublin Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholars in early modern philosophy and intellectual history, and of course Berkeley scholars, will welcome the book.\"\u003cb\u003e---Takaharu Oda, \u003ci\u003eEighteenth Century Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403801796951,"sku":"9780691159805","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691159805.jpg?v=1730484588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/george-berkeley-9780691159805","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}