Locke, literary criticism, and philosophy / / William Walker [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Walker William <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Criticism - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Philosophy, English - 18th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-224) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: William Walker's original analysis of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He presents Locke as a foundational figure who defines the epistemological and ontological ground on which eighteenth-century and Romantic literature operate and eventually diverge. He is revealed as a crucial figure for emerging modernity, less the familiar empiricist innovator and more the proto-Nietzschean thinker whose text fosters hitherto unsuspected instabilities and promotes a new kind of rhetorical force to counterbalance them. Walker's reading of Locke is at once finely attentive to the text and engagingly resourceful in placing the Essay in its broadest philosophical and historical context.
• Altri titoli varianti: Locke, Literary Criticism, & Philosophy
• Titolo autorizzato: Locke, literary criticism, and philosophy
• ISBN: 1-139-08521-2; 0-511-51912-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248191303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; ; 22.