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The Testimony of Sense - Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt (Hardcover)
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The Testimony of Sense - Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt (Hardcover)
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The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important
question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth
century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic
idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the
nature of 'empiricism': the socialisation of experience by Scottish
Enlightenment thinkers and the impact upon philosophical discourse
of the belletrism of periodical culture. The book aims to correct
the still widely-held assumption that Hume effectively silenced
epistemological inquiry in Britain for over half a century.
Instead, it argues that Hume encouraged the abandonment of
subject-centred reason in favour of models of rationality based
upon the performance of trusting actions within society. Of
particular interest here is the way in which, after Hume,
fundamental ideas like the self, truth, and meaning are conceived
less in terms of introspection, correspondence, and reference, and
more in terms of community, coherence, and communication. By
tracing the idea of intersubjectivity through the issues of trust,
testimony, virtue and language, the study offers new perspectives
on the relationships between philosophy and literature, empiricism
and transcendentalism, and Enlightenment and Romanticism. As
philosophy grew more conversational, the familiar essay became a
powerful metaphor for new forms of communication. The book explores
what is epistemologically at stake in the familiar essay genre as
it develops through the writings of Joseph Addison, David Hume,
Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt. It also offers
readings of philosophical texts, such as Hume's Treatise, Thomas
Reid's Inquiry, and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, as
literary performances.
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