Criteria Of Certainty : Truth and Judgment in the English Enlightenment /

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British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain. Critics and historians, Cope a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cope, Kevin Lee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Philosophy in literature.
Philosophy, English.
Intellectual life.
Enlightenment.
English literature.
Siecle des Lumieres > Angleterre.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Siecle des Lumieres.
Philosophie dans la litterature.
Philosophie anglaise > 18e siecle.
Enlightenment > England.
Philosophy, English > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
England.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain. Critics and historians, Cope argues, have done an admirable job of describing the details of the intellectual movements of this period but they have failed to examine the intellectual, social, and psychological implications of explanation itself. Criteria of Certainty makes up for this shortcoming by treating explanation as a co.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780813161723

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