num_pages: 224
description: Whereas previous studies have made George Berkeley (1685-1753) the object of philosophical study, Peter Walmsley assesses Berkeley as a writer, offering rhetorical and literary analyses of Berkeley's four major philosophical texts, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, Alciphron, and Siris. Berkeley emerges from this study as an accomplished stylist who builds structures of affective imagery, creates dramatic voices in his texts, and masters the range of philosophical genres--the treatise, the dialogue, and the essay.
language: English
title: The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
titlecomplete: The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 6)
genres: Philosophy
series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
publisher: Cambridge University Press