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  • 1
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    Online Resource
    Chicago :University of Chicago Press,
    UID:
    edocfu_9959245679302883
    Format: 1 online resource (339 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-282-90460-4 , 9786612904608 , 0-226-47538-7
    Content: "Dying to Know is the work of a distinguished scholar, at the peak of his powers, who is intimately familiar with his materials, and whose knowledge of Victorian fiction and scientific thought is remarkable. This elegant and evocative look at the move toward objectivity first pioneered by Descartes sheds new light on some old and still perplexing problems in modern science." Bernard Lightman, York University, Canada In Dying to Know, eminent critic George Levine makes a landmark contribution to the history and theory of scientific knowledge. This long-awaited book explores the paradoxes of our modern ideal of objectivity, in particular its emphasis on the impersonality and disinterestedness of truth. How, asks Levine, did this idea of selfless knowledge come to be established and moralized in the nineteenth century? Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Victorians, he argues, were dying to know in the sense that they could imagine achieving pure knowledge only in a condition where the body ceases to make its claims: to achieve enlightenment, virtue, and salvation, one must die. Dying to Know is ultimately a study of this moral ideal of epistemology. But it is also something much more: a spirited defense of the difficult pursuit of objectivity, the ethical significance of sacrifice, and the importance of finding a shareable form of knowledge.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , The narrative of scientific epistemology -- Dying to know Descartes -- Carlyle, Descartes, and objectivity : lessen thy denominator -- Autobiography as epistemology : the effacement of self -- My life as a machine : Francis Galton, with some reflections on A.R. Wallace -- Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography -- The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend -- Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology -- The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed -- Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science -- The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-47537-9
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-47536-0
    Language: English
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  • 2
    UID:
    almahu_BV047807911
    Format: 370 Seiten.
    ISBN: 978-3-95650-767-0
    Series Statement: Studien zur Anthropologie und Kulturphilosophie Band 2
    Content: Dieser Band versammelt erstmalig Beiträge zu den philosophischen Dimensionen des Impersonalen, der Vielheit ihrer sprachlichen, gesellschaftlichen, wissenschaftlichen, religiösen und künstlerischen Perspektiven sowie erste Ansätze zu ihrer einheitlichen Bestimmung: Sprachliche und logische Impersonalität Das „Es“ bei K. Kraus „Impersonales“ im Subjekt und im Geschehen Die impersonale Ontologie H. Rombachs Levinas über das „Il y a“ Organisation im ichlosen Bewusstsein Der Zeuge des Bewusstseins in den Traditionen des Vedānta Anonymes Selbstbewusstsein Figuren des Unpersönlichen bei G. Deleuze Das Impersonale bei G. Agamben Formales und kollektives Denken bei Spinoza Cusanus und die Person als Einsatz im Spiel des Lebens Impersonale Subjektivität und die Komödie des Solipsismus Dimensionen des Impersonalen bei T. Nagel, E. Husserl und H. Plessner Zur Gestalt des Impersonalen im Anthropozän Sprache und Maske im Denken F. Nietzsches Theodoros Terzopoulos zu Impersonalität und Theater Mit Beiträgen von Michael Astroh, Eric Ebner, Eric Eggert, Rolf Elberfeld, Katrin Felgenhauer, Ralf Gisinger, Annika Hand, Stefan Lang, Robert Lehmann, Enrico Müller, Daniel Neumann, Frank Raddatz, Christian Rößner, Thomas Schmaus, Fabian Strobel und Theodoros Terzopoulos
    Content: This volume presents, for the first time, an assemblage of contributions on the philosophical dimensions of the impersonal, the multiplicity of its linguistic, social, scientific, religious and artistic perspectives, as well as initial approaches to its unified definition. Linguistic and logical impersonality The “It" in K. Kraus “Impersonality” in the subject and in events The impersonal ontology of H. Rombach Levinas on the “Il y a” Organisation in non-egological consciousness The witness of consciousness in the Vedānta traditions Anonymous self-consciousness G. Deleuzes figures of the impersonal The impersonal in G. Agamben's Philosophy Formal and collective thought in Spinoza Cusanus and the person as stake in the game of life Impersonal subjectivity and the comedy of solipsism Dimensions of the impersonal in T. Nagel, E. Husserl and H. Plessner On the figure of the impersonal in the Anthropocene Language and mask in F. Nietzsche Theodoros Terzopoulos on impersonality and theatre With contributions by Michael Astroh, Eric Ebner, Eric Eggert, Rolf Elberfeld, Katrin Felgenhauer, Ralf Gisinger, Annika Hand, Stefan Lang, Robert Lehmann, Enrico Müller, Daniel Neumann, Frank Raddatz, Christian Rößner, Thomas Schmaus, Fabian Strobel and Theodoros Terzopoulos
    Note: "Der vorliegende Sammelband geht auf einen internationalen Workshop zurück, der in Januar 2020 unter dem Titel "Philosophische Dimensionen des Impersonalen" im Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald stattfand." - Vorwort
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-95650-768-7
    Language: German
    Subjects: Philosophy
    RVK:
    Keywords: Philosophische Anthropologie ; Person ; Negation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Author information: Lehmann, Robert, 1985-
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