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Claire Rydell Arcenas

Claire Rydell Arcenas is an associate professor of history at the University of Montana, where she studies American intellectual life and transatlantic exchange from the late seventeenth century to the present. She holds a PhD from Stanford University, and her first book, America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life, won the István Hont Book Prize for the best book in intellectual history.

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America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life

2022

Arcenas traces three centuries of John Locke in America, showing how each generation remade the philosopher to suit its moment — colonial guide to education and child-rearing, revolutionary authority, philosophy-classroom staple, libertarian icon — revising the story of his founding influence.

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