Literate Experience
Subtitle: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century England
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312293512
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary theory; c 1600 to c 1700; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 17th century; Bacon, Francis,; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; History; History and criticism; Knowledge, Theory of; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
First sentence: As Richard Rorty once told the story in his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, the emergence in the seventeenth century of what is now called epistemology was to have a baleful influence on the subsequent history of philosophy For Rorty, modern philosophy has become a sterile enterprise to the extent that it has been premised on an interpretive model established originally by Descartes, Locke, and their contemporaries and later consolidated by Kant and nineteenth-century neo-Kantians Rorty complains in particular of modern philosophy's excessive concern with explicating mental states and processes, a sign of its continued attachment to a pervasive mind-body dualism given definitive shape and direction in the seventeenth century.