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Realism, ethics and secularism

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283

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Realism, ethics and secularism: essays on Victorian literature and science
2008, Cambridge University Press
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2008, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Part I.The subject broached: Otherness, epistemology, and ethics: George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality
Part II. Ethics without god, or, can "is" can be "ought": Is life worth living?; Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter; Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith; In defense of positivism; How science isn't literature: the importance of differences
Part III. Literature, secularity, and the quest for otherness: Victorian realism; Dickens, secularism and agency; The heartbeat of the squirrel; Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/356
Library of Congress
PR468.S34 L48 2008, PR468.S34L48 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
283

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18518540M
Internet Archive
realismethicssec0000levi
ISBN 13
9780521885263
LCCN
2008018926
OCLC/WorldCat
221147503
Library Thing
6332320
Goodreads
6702794

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