George Berkeley in America
By: Edwin S. Gaustad.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 -- Homes and haunts -- Rhode Island -- Newport; Philosophers -- England -- Biography; United States -- Civilization -- To 1783
Description: Berkeley-as-philosopher was--at least to the historian of early America--only a modest fragment of the whole man whom some Americans came to know and many more came to honor. Se early did George Berkeley enter into an unborn nation's cultural blood-stream that, centuries later, he has not been bled out. The story here recounted concerns the many-sidedness of that restless genius, particularly as it expressed itself in or left its mark on a portion of the New World.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.