This challenging book explores the interplay of language and visual perception at the heart of empiricism. A re-evaluation of the British empiricist tradition from the perspective of contemporary literary theory, it also offers a sustained challenge...
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This challenging book explores the interplay of language and visual perception at the heart of empiricism. A re-evaluation of the British empiricist tradition from the perspective of contemporary literary theory, it also offers a sustained challenge...
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 258 pp. Hardcover, blue cloth, 8vo, gilt titles. Near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket. Minimal signs of handling; insides clean, contents bright and unmarked. DJ shows slight wear at corners and head and foot of spine; housed in mylar wrap.
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Like New. Size: 9x6x1; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xi, 258 pp. Contents: 'Beside the Design of Language': Molyneux's Question & the Empiricist Construction of Rhetoric; Locke's Grammar of Reflection; Toward the Surface & Back Again: Berkeley's Reflections on Language; Empiricist Aesthetics: Burke's 'Analogy' of the Senses; The 'Character' of Reflection: Hazlitt on Depth and Superficiality; Ruskin's 'Truth of Space': The Technique of Surface & the Ethics of Depth in 'Modern Painters'; Epilogue: From Ruskin to I.A. Richards: The End of Empiricism & the Beginning of Empiricist Literary Criticism; Appendix: Empiricism Among the Isms.
