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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Institutes of Metaphysic : the Theory of Knowing and Being : by James Ferrier ... (Edinburgh and London, 1854).
Author: The Madness of Knowledge
Author: Steven ConnorPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 178914101X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. Steven Connor’s The Madness of Knowledge is the first book to investigate this emotional inner life of knowledge—the lusts, fantasies, dreams, and fears that the idea of knowing provokes. There are in-depth discussions of the imperious will to know, of Freud’s epistemophilia (or love of knowledge), and the curiously insistent links between madness, magical thinking, and the desire for knowledge. Connor also probes secrets and revelations, quarreling and the history of quizzes and “general knowledge,” charlatanry and pretension, both the violent disdain and the sanctification of the stupid, as well as the emotional investment in the spaces and places of knowledge, from the study to the library. In an age of artificial intelligence, alternative facts, and mistrust of truth, The Madness of Knowledge offers an opulent, enlarging, and sometimes unnerving psychopathology of intellectual life.
The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Biography. 6v. and Suppl
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Brownson's quarterly review
Author: Brownson's Quarterly Review
Author: Orestes Augustus BrownsonPublisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442638672
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, published in two volumes in 1963, were well received by critics and scholars alike. The publication of these four volumes of later letters completes this edition of Mill's personal correspondence. These volumes contain over 1,800 letters, most never before published, and some sixty earlier letters that have come to light since the publication of the first two volumes of correspondence. The letters have been assembled from widely dispersed collections in the libraries of fifty-eight institutions and of some thirty private collections in Britain and in other countries of the Commonwealth, Europe, and North America. In addition, many personal letters of which no originals survived have been located in contemporary periodicals or biographies of Mill's correspondence.
Essays in Philosophy
Author: Alexander Campbell FRASER (Philosopher.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Brownson's Review
Author: Essays in Philosophy
Author: Alexander Campbell FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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