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An edition of Dying to know: scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England (2002)

Dying to know

scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England

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"Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. Thc Victorians, he argues, were dying to know in the sense that they could imagine achieving pure knowledge only in a condition where the body ceases to make its claims: to achieve enlightenment, virtue, and salvation, one must die."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Chicago Press
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English
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326

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History, History and criticism, English prose literature, Science, Philosophy, Influence, Narration (Rhetoric), Literature and science, Science in literature, Knowledge, Theory of, in literature, Descartes, rene, 1596-1650, English prose literature, history and criticism, Knowledge, theory of, Science, philosophy, Narration (rhetoric)

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René Descartes (1596-1650)

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Great Britain

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19th century

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Table of Contents

The narrative of scientific epistemology
Dying to know Descartes
Carlyle, Descartes, and objectivity : lessen thy denominator
Autobiography as epistemology : the effacement of self
My life as a machine : Francis Galton, with some reflections on A.R. Wallace
Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography
The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend
Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology
The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed
Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science
The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-315) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
828/.80809356
Library of Congress
PR788.S33 L48 2002, PR788.S33L48 2002

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xi, 326 p. ;
Number of pages
326

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OL3939435M
ISBN 10
0226475360
LCCN
2001006417
OCLC/WorldCat
48397923
Library Thing
610149
Goodreads
406562

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