Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and other Philosophical Writings Volume 1: Drafts A and B

by Locke, John; Nidditch, Peter H.; Rogers, G. A. J.

• ISBN13: 9780198245452
• ISBN10: 0198245459
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-10-11
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
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Summary

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 volumes of the Clarendon Edition of John Locke such as the Correspondence. The book contains the two earliest known drafts of the Essay, 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 at the foot of each page.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Locke's Essay and its manuscript sources

The contents of drafts

The production of this volume

The manuscript sources of the texts

History of the manuscripts

Previous publications

The editorial principles of this edition

The text: Draft A

Draft B contents

Draft B

Appendices: Comparative table of draft A and the Essay

Comparative table of draft B and the Essay

The allograph copy of draft A

The editorial method of Peter Nidditch

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