| Description |
1 online resource (x, 202 pages) |
| Contents |
Corrupting the fountains of knowledge -- Linguistic turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge -- Kant and the error of subreption -- The madness of the middle -- "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons -- Conclusion: a dirty word |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Error.
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Rhetoric -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Philosophy, Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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Error
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Philosophy, Modern
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Rhetoric
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Retorik -- historia -- Europa -- 1700-talet.
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Kunskapsteori -- historia -- Europa -- 1700-talet.
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804775090 |
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0804775095 |
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0804770174 |
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9780804770170 |
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