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Victorian empiricism : self, knowledge, and reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot / Peter Garratt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garratt, Peter, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Empiricism--History--19th century.
- Empiricism.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8386-4287-X
- OCLC:
- 712993410
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