John Locke: Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Other Philosophical Writings: Volume I: Drafts A and B: 01 (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke) - Hardcover

Locke, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198245459 ISBN 13: 9780198245452

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1990

Synopsis

This is the first of three volumes which will contain all of Locke's extant philosophical writings relating to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, not included in other Clarendon editions like the Correspondence. It contains the earliest known drafts of the Essay, Drafts A and B, both written in 1671, and provides for the first time an accurate version of Locke's text. Virtually all his changes are recorded in footnotes on each page.

Peter Nidditch, whose highly acclaimed edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was published in this series in 1975, used pioneering editorial techniques in his compilation of Volume 1. Most of the work was completed before his tragically early death in 1983.

Volumes 2 and 3, almost wholly the work of G. A. J. Rogers will contain the third extant draft of the Essay (Draft C), the Epitome and the Conduct of the Understanding. They will also include a History of the Writing of the Essay, together with other shorter writings by Locke.

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From the Back Cover

This volume is the first of three which will contain all of Locke's extant writings on philosophy which relate to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, other than those contained in other volumes of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke such as the Correspondence. It contains the two earliest known drafts of the Essay, Drafts A and B, both written in 1671, and provides for the first time an accurate version of Locke's text, together with a record of virtually all his changes, in notes placed at the foot of each page.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198245459
• ISBN 13: 9780198245452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Nidditch Peter H., Rogers G. A. J.