The rhetoric of error from Locke to Kleist /

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The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sng, Zachary, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Error.
Rhetoric > Europe > History > 18th century.
Knowledge, Theory of > Europe > History > 18th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
Rhétorique > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Théorie de la connaissance > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Error
Knowledge, Theory of
Philosophy, Modern
Rhetoric
Retorik > historia > Europa > 1700-talet.
Kunskapsteori > historia > Europa > 1700-talet.
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Corrupting the fountains of knowledge
  • Linguistic turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge
  • Kant and the error of subreption
  • The madness of the middle
  • "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons
  • Conclusion: a dirty word.

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