Criteria of certainty : truth and judgment in the english enlightenment / Kevin L. Cope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cope, Kevin L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Philosophy, English--18th century.

Philosophy, English.

Philosophy in literature.

Enlightenment--England.

Enlightenment.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 co

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART l. RESTORATION OF CERTAINTY; 1. Rochester: Confrontational Systems; 2. Halifax: Deviational Systems; 3. Dryden: Incomprehensible Systems; PART II. CONFRONTATION WITH CERTAINTY; 4. Locke: Analogies of Conflict; 5. Swift: Residual Conflicts and Casual Systems; 6. Pope: Confronted Systems; 7. Smith: Systematic Reclamation of the Self; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-218) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6026-X

0-8131-3284-3

0-8131-6172-X

OCLC:

556874622