https://books.google.fr/books?id=YR3YreqaREwC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=Toward+a+Genealogy+of+Individualism&source=bl&ots=-6JSeYqQH5&sig=RlzhY3nU3g9PjelyTTjjKpGp71o&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CDsQ6AEwA2oVChMIuNOcxJ_dxwIVygoaCh3-iAIk#v=onepage&q=Toward%20a%20Genealogy%20of%20Individualism&f=false
"These developments, that of philosophical realism and of the novel form itself, have their origins in Thomas Reid, Locke, and Descartes, whose Meditations "did much to bring about the modern assumption whereby the pursuit of truth is conceived as a wholly individual matter, logically independent of the tradition of paste thought, and indeed as more likely to be arrived at by a departure of from it". Here [Ian] Watt takes us to what is arguably the core of individualism, the fundamental premise upon which is it based: the belief that the pursuit of truth is a wholly individual matter." (p.18)
-Daniel Shanahan, Toward a Genealogy of Individualism, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991, 161 pages.
"These developments, that of philosophical realism and of the novel form itself, have their origins in Thomas Reid, Locke, and Descartes, whose Meditations "did much to bring about the modern assumption whereby the pursuit of truth is conceived as a wholly individual matter, logically independent of the tradition of paste thought, and indeed as more likely to be arrived at by a departure of from it". Here [Ian] Watt takes us to what is arguably the core of individualism, the fundamental premise upon which is it based: the belief that the pursuit of truth is a wholly individual matter." (p.18)
-Daniel Shanahan, Toward a Genealogy of Individualism, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991, 161 pages.