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Sng Zachary <1971-> |
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The rhetoric of error from Locke to Kleist [[electronic resource] /] / Zachary Sng |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Error |
Rhetoric - Europe - History - 18th century |
Knowledge, Theory of - Europe - History - 18th century |
Philosophy, Modern |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Corrupting the Fountains of Knowledge; 2. Linguistic Turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge; 3. Kant and the Error of Subreption; 4. The Madness of the Middle; 5. "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the Language of the Amazons; Conclusion: A Dirty Word; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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