The fullness of knowing
Subtitle: modernity and postmodernity from Defoe to Gadamer
By: Daniel E. Ritchie.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781932792171
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of -- History; Philosophy, Modern -- History; Enlightenment; Postmodernism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: All is trash that reason cannot reach : unenlightened writers and the postmodern world; title: Learning to read, learning to listen in Robinson Crusoe; title: The hymns of Isaac Watts and postmodern worship : aesthetic knowledge as a response to the Enlightenment critique of religion; title: Jonathan Swift's information machine and the critique of technology; title: Christopher Smart's poetry and the dialogue between science and theology; title: Festival and discipline in revolutionary France and postmodern times; title: Remembering things past : tradition as a way of knowing in Edmund Burke and Hans-Georg Gadamer; title: Reconciling the heart with the head : the poetry of William Cowper and the thought of Michael Polanyi.