This highly original study is concerned with the theory of
knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring the
recurrent paradox which equates pure ignorance with perfect
knowledge, twin ideals free from the impurities and imperfections
of discourse. The author combines the techniques of literary
criticism and intellectual history in order to examine the
literary, philosophical, theological, and political ramifications
of this anxiety about, and ambition to transcend, the limits of the
text. Dr Martin begins by tracing a network of interlocking motifs
and images - beginning and end, nescience and omniscience, genesis
and renascence, savagery and civilization - across a broad spectrum
of texts from the Book of Genesis through the Renaissance (in
particular the works of Nicholas of Cusa and Erasmus) to Rousseau.
The central section of the book translates these temporal
oppositions into the spatial antithesis of East and West in the
Orientalism of Hugo, Napoleon and Chateaubriand. A final chapter
draws together these apparently disparate themes in a consideration
of the dichotomy of science and literature in Jules Verne's Voyages
Extraordinaires.
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