Uzgalis, William. "Review of Conal Condren, et al, eds. The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe." NDPR July 17, 2007

The editors claim that "[v]iewed from a post-Kantian vantage, the landscape of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century philosophy appears as a foreign country" (5). They tell us that in order to recover "understandings of philosophy not easily assimilated to the current self-understandings of the discipline", their volume "argues for a more thoroughly historical approach to the history of early modern philosophy." To do this, the volume focuses on "the complementary phenomena of the contested character of philosophy, and the persona necessary for its practice, that is, the purpose built 'self' whose cognitive capacities and moral bearing are cultivated for the sake of a knowledge deemed philosophical." (p. 7). . . . More at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10463