Author: Kevin L. Cope
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185696
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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 composite literary and philosophical mode, as a kind of "master genre" governing the development of a variety of genres, from pithy maxims and lyric poems to lengthy treatises and epics of explanation. Cope's probing and inventive analyses of seven writers—Rochester, Halifax, Dryden, Locke, Swift, Pope, and Smith—shed new light on many major issues in both eighteenth-century studies and critical theory. Discussing the gradual enlargement of the claims of explanatory discourse, Cope explores the problematic psychological relation between "philosophizing" authors and their expansionist, systematizing discourse. By applying the methods of recent literary criticism to philosophical texts, Cope reexamines the possibility of a philosophical reading of literary texts, opens the possibility of "characterizing" an age, and sets a variety of genres on a common intellectual foundation. Drawing on both "canonical" and overlooked authors, he also shows how the writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century may help us to understand the immensity, vitality, and irresistibility of explanatory rhetoric in our own age.
Criteria Of Certainty
Author: Kevin L. Cope
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081316172X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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 composite literary and philosophical mode, as a kind of "master genre" governing the development of a variety of genres, from pithy maxims and lyric poems to lengthy treatises and epics of explanation. Cope's probing and inventive analyses of seven writers -- Rochester, Halifax, Dryden, Locke, Swift, Pope, and Smith -- shed new light on many major issues in both eighteenth-century studies and critical theory. Discussing the gradual enlargement of the claims of explanatory discourse, Cope explores the problematic psychological relation between "philosophizing" authors and their expansionist, systematizing discourse. By applying the methods of recent literary criticism to philosophical texts, Cope reexamines the possibility of a philosophical reading of literary texts, opens the possibility of "characterizing" an age, and sets a variety of genres on a common intellectual foundation. Drawing on both "canonical" and overlooked authors, he also shows how the writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century may help us to understand the immensity, vitality, and irresistibility of explanatory rhetoric in our own age.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081316172X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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 composite literary and philosophical mode, as a kind of "master genre" governing the development of a variety of genres, from pithy maxims and lyric poems to lengthy treatises and epics of explanation. Cope's probing and inventive analyses of seven writers -- Rochester, Halifax, Dryden, Locke, Swift, Pope, and Smith -- shed new light on many major issues in both eighteenth-century studies and critical theory. Discussing the gradual enlargement of the claims of explanatory discourse, Cope explores the problematic psychological relation between "philosophizing" authors and their expansionist, systematizing discourse. By applying the methods of recent literary criticism to philosophical texts, Cope reexamines the possibility of a philosophical reading of literary texts, opens the possibility of "characterizing" an age, and sets a variety of genres on a common intellectual foundation. Drawing on both "canonical" and overlooked authors, he also shows how the writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century may help us to understand the immensity, vitality, and irresistibility of explanatory rhetoric in our own age.
The Criteria of Certainty
Author: Kevin Lee Cope
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Certainty
Author: Carolyn Wilde
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Category : Certainty
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Certainty
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Certainty
Author: Antonio Rosmini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951321157
Category : Certainty
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The criterion of certainty, the force of a priori reasoning and the primary division of the sciences are immediate consequences of Rosmini's recognition of the light being as the constitutive element of intelligence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951321157
Category : Certainty
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The criterion of certainty, the force of a priori reasoning and the primary division of the sciences are immediate consequences of Rosmini's recognition of the light being as the constitutive element of intelligence.
Certainty, Assent and Belief
Author: Heikki Kirjavainen
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Category : Certainty
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher:
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Category : Certainty
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630-1690
Author: Henry G. Leeuwen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789401759076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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ISBN: 9789401759076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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An analysis of criteria for investment and financing decisions under certainty
Author: Daniel Teichroew
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Descartes' Philosophy of Science
Author: Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008689
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008689
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An Analysis of Criteria for Investment and Financing Decisions Under Certainty
Author: Daniel Teichroew
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Category : Capital investments
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Capital investments
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Between Probability and Certainty
Author: Martin Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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