Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England
Levine, George Lewis
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Hardcover
320 pages
1 Halftone
Published: 2002
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN / EAN: 0226475360
In 'Dying to know', critic George Levine explores the paradoxes of our modern ideal of objectivity, in particular its emphasis on the impersonality and disinterestedness of truth. Levine focuses on the Victorian imagination of enlightenment after death.