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Criteria Of Certainty - Truth and Judgment in the English Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Criteria Of Certainty - Truth and Judgment in the English Enlightenment (Paperback)
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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.
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