Description |
1 online resource (x, 202 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Corrupting the fountains of knowledge -- Linguistic turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge -- Kant and the error of subreption -- The madness of the middle -- "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons -- Conclusion: a dirty word. |
Summary |
The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Error.
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Error. |
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Rhetoric -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Rhetoric. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sng, Zachary, 1971- Rhetoric of error from Locke to Kleist. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804770170 (DLC) 2010004871 (OCoLC)511626830 |
ISBN |
9780804775090 (electronic book) |
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0804775095 (electronic book) |
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0804770174 |
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9780804770170 |
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9780804770170 |
Standard No. |
40018178858 |
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