The Testimony of Sense: Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt

by Tim Milnes

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The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the nature of 'empiricism': the socialisation of experience by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and the impact upon philosophical discourse of the belletrism of periodical culture. The book aims to correct...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198812736

ISBN13:9780198812739

Release Date:August 2019

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:290 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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