Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

By David S. Reynolds

Book Overview

This collection presents writings on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, the three greatest rationalists of the early modern period. Their work offered brilliant and distinct integrations of science, morals, metaphysics and religion, which today remain at the centre of philosophical discussion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065654
• ISBN13: 9780674065659
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

New Perspective on American Classic Literary Tradition

Truly well-thought, researched, and rendered. Reynolds grounds his literary analysis in a vivid sense of the transition from the Republic toward the corporate industrial era, explicating the dynamics of our vital tradition.