Interpreting Modern Philosophy

James Collins probes the meaning and methods of historical interpretation in philosophy by analyzing the creative reciprocity between the modern source thinkers--the great classical philosophers from Descartes and Locke to Mill and Nietzsche--and their midtwentieth century interpreters.

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