Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature

by Alexander Dick (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $199.00

  Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness.