The rhetoric of error from Locke to Kleist
By: Zachary Sng.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780804770170
Subjects: Error; Rhetoric -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Knowledge, Theory of -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Philosophy, Modern
Description: Taking John Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' as its point of departure, this book examines a number of debates, focussing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, it takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, the book elucidates how people wrote about error, and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Corrupting the fountains of knowledge; title: Linguistic turns : Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge; title: Kant and the error of subreption; title: The madness of the middle; title: Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are : Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons; title: Conclusion : a dirty word.