The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity (Ideas in Context)

In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a new light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting.

The Murders in the Run Morgue and The Purloined Letter. (level 6)

Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe's great detective. Who could have committed the atrocioius murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it?