The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist
Autor Zachary Sngen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iul 2010
Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding as his point of departure, Sng examines a number of such debates, focusing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, he takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, Sng elucidates how people wrote about error and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge. The range of authors addressed—Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe—demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity underlying the textual production of the age.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780804770170
ISBN-10: 0804770174
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
ISBN-10: 0804770174
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
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Recenzii
"With clarity, precision, and deftness, Zachary Sng analyzes in The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist the topic of error as it is thematized and figured in an array of philosophical and literary texts from Britain to Germany in the eighteenth century . . . The topic is a demanding and potentially unwieldy one that Sng handles with athleticism and elegance."—Emily Sun, Studies in Romanticism
"The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist is highly ambitious and shows a remarkable erudition in a broad spectrum of fields: philosophy, literature, and above all literary theory. This is theoretical thinking and literary criticism at its best."—Carol Jacobs, Yale University
"This elegant, lucid book addresses itself to one of the most imposingly significant topics imaginable. Sng manages the remarkable feat of writing with knife-like precision about error—the very figure of figurative drift. His study not only contributes richly to our understanding of classic eighteenth-century literary and philosophical texts, but offers the rare spectacle of a work fearlessly committed to the task of thinking about reading."—Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University
Notă biografică
Zachary Sng is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Brown University.
Descriere
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.