Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England /

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"Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Victorians, he argues, were dying to know in the sen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levine, George Lewis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.
Temas:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650 > Influence.
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650
1800-1899
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Science in literature.
Science > Philosophy.
Prose anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Théorie de la connaissance dans la littérature.
Sciences dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English prose literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
Literature and science
Narration (Rhetoric)
Science in literature
Science > Philosophy
Wetenschap.
Kennistheorie.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The narrative of scientific epistemology
  • Dying to know Descartes
  • Carlyle, Descartes, and objectivity : lessen thy denominator
  • Autobiography as epistemology : the effacement of self
  • My life as a machine : Francis Galton, with some reflections on A.R. Wallace
  • Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography
  • The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend
  • Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology
  • The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed
  • Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science
  • The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater.

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