Open form and the shape of ideas : literary structures as representations of philosophical concepts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Oscar Kenshur
1986, First Edition. Lewisburg [Pa.] London ; Cranbury, NJ : Bucknell University Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404309
ISBN: 0838750818
Physical description; 140 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index. Contents; 1. The nature and interpretation of open forms -- 2. Knowledge broken: Bacon's Novum organum and Diderot's De l'Interpretation de la nature -- 3. Perspectivism and inclusionism: the case of the Quijote -- 4. Thomson's Seasons: fragments and order -- 5. Encyclopedic form: the triumph of the arbitrary -- Afterword: The historical question. Subjects; 1600-1799. Literature Philosophy. Literary form. European literatures, 1600-1800. Genres - Philosophical perspectives. Philosophy, Modern.
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