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Author:

Garratt, Peter, 1976-

Title:

Victorian empiricism : self, knowledge, and reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot / Peter Garratt.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Empiricism--History--19th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The ghost of David Hume : backgrounds to mid-Victorian empiricism -- Ruskin's Modern painters and the visual language of reality -- The eye (in)exact : G.H. Lewes and the problems of perception -- As deep as the viscera : Alexander Bain, Spinoza, and the knowing body -- To think is to condition : Herbert Spencer and the negotiations of relativism -- Epilogue : rethinking empiricism.

ISBN:

0838642667 (alk. paper)
9780838642665 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)521733502

LCCN:

2010002542

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)