The Reception of John Locke’s Writings at Christ Church, Oxford, c. 1690–1800

This article presents some overlooked evidence on the reception of John Locke’s writings at Christ Church, Oxford. It is intended to supplement a new article in the History of Universities on the surprisingly positive response to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) at that bastion of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Locke Studies 2024-01, Vol.23, p.1-34
1. Verfasser: Chatterjee, Jacob Donald
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article presents some overlooked evidence on the reception of John Locke’s writings at Christ Church, Oxford. It is intended to supplement a new article in the History of Universities on the surprisingly positive response to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) at that bastion of late seventeenth-century high churchmanship. This evidence sheds new light on: the reception of Epicureanism at that college in the 1650s; Locke’s personal connections at Christ Church; book-holdings of Locke’s writings at the early eighteenth-century college; some unnoticed uses of Locke’s writings by members of Christ Church; the European and North American reception of one Christ Church Lockean; and, the changing trajectory of the later eighteenth-century reception of Locke at that college.
ISSN:1476-0290
2561-925X
2561-925X
DOI:10.5206/ls.2023.16785