The Resource Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England, George Levine
Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England, George Levine
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The item Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England, George Levine represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
- "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. The 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."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 326 pages
- Contents
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- 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 reflections on A.R. Wallace
- Self-effacement revisited : woman 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
- Isbn
- 9780226475363
- Label
- Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England
- Title
- Dying to know
- Title remainder
- scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England
- Statement of responsibility
- George Levine
- Subject
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- Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Influence
- English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
- Science -- Philosophy
- Science in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. The 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."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1931-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Levine, George
- Dewey number
- 828/.80809356
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR788.S33
- LC item number
- L48 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Literature and science
- English prose literature
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Science in literature
- Science
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Descartes, René
- Label
- Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England, George Levine
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 reflections on A.R. Wallace -- Self-effacement revisited : woman 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
- Control code
- 48397923
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226475363
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001006417
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England, George Levine
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 reflections on A.R. Wallace -- Self-effacement revisited : woman 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
- Control code
- 48397923
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226475363
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001006417
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Influence
- English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
- Science -- Philosophy
- Science in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
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