Neal Wood, The Politics of Locke's Philosophy: A Social Study of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

Among scholars working in the history of ideas, Neal and Ellen Wood hold a special place. For more than a decade, working jointly and alone, they have been discovering the social contexts of philosophical thought. … As Neal Wood summarizes in this perspective in The Politics of Locke’s Philosophy, “Whatever claim to universality a philosophical treatise may have, it is in part a tract for the times, a social document reflecting the prejudices and illusions of a people as well as their perceptions.” For Wood, John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is just such a tract.

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