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Victorian empiricism : self, knowledge, and reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot / Peter Garratt.

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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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