Realism, ethics and secularism essays on Victorian literature and science
Part I. The subject broached: Otherness, epistemology, and ethics: George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality -- Part II. Ethics without god, or, can "is" can be "ought": Is life worth living?; Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter; Scientific discourse as an alternative to...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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English literature
> History and criticism
> Literature and science
> History
> Ethics
> Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
> Science in literature
> Realism in literature
> Secularism in literature
> 19th century
> Great Britain
> Intellectual life
> Englisch
> Literatur
> Ethik
> Wissenschaft
> Geschichte 1837-1901
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part I. The subject broached: Otherness, epistemology, and ethics: George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality -- Part II. Ethics without god, or, can "is" can be "ought": Is life worth living?; Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter; Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith; In defense of positivism; How science isn't literature: the importance of differences -- Part III. Literature, secularity, and the quest for otherness: Victorian realism; Dickens, secularism and agency; The heartbeat of the squirrel; Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 283 S. |
| ISBN: | 0521885264 0-521-88526-4 9780521885263 978-0-521-88526-3 |