Author	Bracken, Harry M. author
Title	The Early Reception of Berkeley's Immaterialism 1710-1733 [electronic resource] / by Harry M. Bracken
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1959
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9473-0
Descript	124 p. 1 illus. online resource

By the time of Immanuel Kant, Berkeley had been caIled, among other things, a sceptic, an atheist, a solipsist, and an idealist. In our own day, however, the suggestion has been adยญ vanced that Berkeley is bett er understood if interpreted as a realist and man of common sense. Regardless of whether in the end one decides to treat hirn as a subjective idealist or as a reยญ alist, I think it has become appropriate to inquire how Berkeley's own contemporaries viewed his philosophy. Heretofore the genยญ erally accepted account has been that they ignored hirn, roughly from the time he published the Principles 01 Human Knowledge until1733 when Andrew Baxter's criticism appeared. The aim of the present study is to correct that account as weIl as to give some indication not only of the extent, but more important, the role and character of several of the earliest discussions. Secondยญ arily, I have tried to give some clues as to the influence this early material may have had in forming the image of the "good" Bishยญ op that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century. For it is my hope that such clues may prove helpful in freeing us from the more severe strictures of the traditional interpretive dogmas

I. The Early Reception of Berkeley's Immaterialism -- The London Wits. โ{128}{148} Acta Eruditorum. โ{128}{148} Bibliothรจque Italique. โ{128}{148} Jean Pierre de Crousaz. โ{128}{148} Pierre Desfontaines. โ{128}{148} Voltaire. โ{128}{148} Journal des Sรงavans. โ{128}{148} Journal Litรฉraire. โ{128}{148} Michael de la Roche and Memoirs of Literature. โ{128}{148} Malebranche, the Jesuits and the Mรฉmoires de Trรฉvoux. โ{128}{148} Egomism. โ{128}{148} Christian Wolff. โ{128}{148} Christoph Pfaff. โ{128}{148}Arthur Collier -- II. A Continuation -- Fรฉnelon. โ{128}{148} Tournemine and the Jesuits again. โ{128}{148} L'Europe Savante. โ{128}{148} Chevalier Ramsay. โ{128}{148} David Hume. โ{128}{148} The Rankenian Club. โ{128}{148} Samuel Johnson of Connecticut. โ{128}{148} Ephraim Chambers. โ{128}{148} Andrew Baxter -- III. The Journal Litรฉraire Review of Berkeley's Three Dialogues -- Thรฉmiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe. โ{128}{148} Justus van Effen -- IV. Berkeley and Chambers -- Chambers' Cyclopaedia. โ{128}{148} Abstract Ideas. โ{128}{148} L'Encyclopรฉdie -- V. Andrew Baxter: Critic of Berkeley -- Pyrrhonism. โ{128}{148} Pierre Bayle. โ{128}{148} Ephraim Chambers -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Journal des Sรงavans (1711) -- Appendix B: journal Litรฉraire (1713) -- Appendix C: Mรฉmoires de Trรฉvoux (May 1713) -- Appendix D: Mรฉmoires de Trรฉvoux (December 1713) -- Appendix E: Tournemine's Sur l'Athรฉisme des Immatรฉrialistes (1718) -- Appendix F: Selections from Chamber' Cyclopaedia (1728)