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Victorian empiricism [electronic resource] : self, knowledge, and reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot / Peter Garratt

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Garratt, Peter, 1976-
Published:
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
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ISBN:
9780838642665 (alk. paper)
0838642667 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-237) and index.
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