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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459592103321

Autore

Cope Kevin L.

Titolo

Criteria of certainty : truth and judgment in the english enlightenment / / Kevin L. Cope

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

0-8131-3284-3

0-8131-6172-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/005

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Philosophy, English - 18th century

Philosophy in literature

Enlightenment - England

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART l. RESTORATION OF CERTAINTY; 1. Rochester: Confrontational Systems; 2. Halifax: Deviational Systems; 3. Dryden: Incomprehensible Systems; PART II. CONFRONTATION WITH CERTAINTY; 4. Locke: Analogies of Conflict; 5. Swift: Residual Conflicts and Casual Systems; 6. Pope: Confronted Systems; 7. Smith: Systematic Reclamation of the Self; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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