An edition of Dying to know: scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England
(2002)
Dying to know
scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England
by George Levine
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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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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)People
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Dying to know: scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England
2002, University of Chicago Press
in English
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-315) and index.
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