Criteria of Certainty: Truth and Judgment in the English EnlightenmentUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1990 - 224 pagina's 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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Confrontational Systems | 21 |
Deviational Systems | 43 |
Incomprehensible Systems | 66 |
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Absalom and Achitophel abstract Achitophel action Adam Smith aggressive Alexander Pope Annus Mirabilis approach argues artificial assert belief certainty character coherent complex context conventions creature criticism defined destabilizing deviation differentiated Dryden Dunciad elicit empiricism engagement epistemology Essay ethical example experience explanation explanatory discourse explanatory systems forces George Berkeley Gulliver Gulliver's Travels Halifax Houyhnhnms human knowledge human world ideas identity impartial spectator individual influences John Dryden John Locke Jonathan Swift judgment language laws limited literary literature Locke's Lockean means mediating metaphor mind mixed modes Modern Moral Sentiments motion nature objects ontology organizing paradoxical particular passions pastoral perception person philosophical poem poet poetic political Pope's Press production psychological reader reason relation Religio Laici religion rhetoric Rochester rules satire Satyr self-command Smithian social society stabilizing Studies suggests Swift systematic talk Theory of Moral things thinking tion Trimmer truth Univ writers
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