Levine George: Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Dying to Know, eminent critic George Levine makes a landmark contribution to the history and theory of scientific knowledge. This 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 19th century? Levine…