Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding as his point of departure, Sng examines a number of such debates, focusing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, he takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, Sng elucidates how people wrote about error and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge. The range of authors addressed—Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe—demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity underlying the textual production of the age.
Zachary Sng
The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist
The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist
Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 216 ● ISBN 9780804775090 ● Filstorlek 0.3 MB ● Utgivare Stanford University Press ● Publicerad 2010 ● Utgåva 1 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5207904 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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