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Victorian empiricism : self, knowledge, and reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot /
Dr. Garratt argues that by the 1860s empiricism was both a dominant cultural language and a reflexive epistemic theory, producing a model of contingent selfhood conceived simultaneously as the route towards knowledge and its obstacle. For this reason, Victorian empiricism predicated its search for k...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Madison : Cranbury, NJ :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The ghost of David Hume : backgrounds to mid-Victorian empiricism
- Ruskin's Modern painters and the visual language of reality
- The eye (in)exact : G.H. Lewes and the problems of perception
- As deep as the viscera : Alexander Bain, Spinoza, and the knowing body
- To think is to condition : Herbert Spencer and the negotiations of relativism
- Epilogue : rethinking empiricism.