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Uneasy relations : reason in literature & science from Aristotle to Darwin & Blake /
Since antiquity, perceptive thinkers in western culture have maintained that literature has its own rationality, a rationality as valid in its own domain as the reasoning of theoretical and empirical science. The dismissal of literature's rationality in our own scientific era has wreaked havoc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milwaukee, WI :
Marquette University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Marquette studies in philosophy ;
#69. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since antiquity, perceptive thinkers in western culture have maintained that literature has its own rationality, a rationality as valid in its own domain as the reasoning of theoretical and empirical science. The dismissal of literature's rationality in our own scientific era has wreaked havoc in the philosophy of education, sowed discord in religion, and led poets like William Blake to warn of our diminished humanity. And yet, in spite of their uneasy relations, there is a mutuality between literature and science. The author, Jane Rupert, tries to draw out this mutuality and demonstrate the w. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0874627729 9780874627725 |