Criteria of certainty : truth and judgment in the english enlightenment / / Kevin L. Cope
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| Autore: |
Cope Kevin L.
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| Titolo: |
Criteria of certainty : truth and judgment in the english enlightenment / / Kevin L. Cope
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| Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990 |
| ©1990 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/005 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
| Philosophy, English - 18th century | |
| Philosophy in literature | |
| Enlightenment - England | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Criteria of certainty |
| ISBN: | 0-8131-3284-3 |
| 0-8131-6172-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787466603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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