{"product_id":"the-rhetoric-of-error-from-locke-to-kleist-hardcover","title":"The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eZachary Sng\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke's \u003ci\u003eEssay Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e as his point of departure, Sng examines a number of such debates, focusing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, he takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, Sng elucidates how people wrote about error and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge. The range of authors addressed--Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe--demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity underlying the textual production of the age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eZachary Sng is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131196543111,"sku":"9780804770170","price":119.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/687c440e771a332ca33d158e3f13b3ce.webp?v=1732617106","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-rhetoric-of-error-from-locke-to-kleist-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}