Victorian empiricism self, knowledge, and reality in Rushkin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot

The ghost of David Hume : backgrounds to mid-Victorian empiricism -- Ruskin's Modern painters and the visual language of reality -- The eye (in)exact : G.H. Lewes and the problems of perception -- As deep as the viscera : Alexander Bain, Spinoza, and the knowing body -- To think is to condition...

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1. Verfasser: Garratt, Peter (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Madison, Wis. u.a. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press 2010
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Zusammenfassung:The ghost of David Hume : backgrounds to mid-Victorian empiricism -- Ruskin's Modern painters and the visual language of reality -- The eye (in)exact : G.H. Lewes and the problems of perception -- As deep as the viscera : Alexander Bain, Spinoza, and the knowing body -- To think is to condition : Herbert Spencer and the negotiations of relativism -- Epilogue : rethinking empiricism.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 228 - 237) and index
Beschreibung:244 S.
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ISBN:9780838642665
978-0-8386-4266-5
0838642667
0-8386-4266-7
9781611474909
978-1-61147-490-9