Philosophical biographer, the: doubt and dialectic in johnson's lives of the poets
Auteur :
Maner, Martin
Éditeur :
University of Georgia Press
ISBN :
9780820333748
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2009
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
454 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This work shows shows how a shift in philosophical outlook in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—from an understanding of human knowledge rooted in deductive certainties to one resting on inductive probability—influenced the development of biographical narrative and Johnson's biographical evidence in his Lives of the Poets.