The rhetoric of error from Locke to Kleist / Zachary Sng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sng, Zachary, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Error.

Rhetoric--Europe--History--18th century.

Rhetoric.

Knowledge, Theory of--Europe--History--18th century.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Corrupting the Fountains of Knowledge; 2. Linguistic Turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge; 3. Kant and the Error of Subreption; 4. The Madness of the Middle; 5. "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the Language of the Amazons; Conclusion: A Dirty Word; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804775090

0804775095

OCLC:

669498104