Origins and the Enlightenment : : Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant / / Catherine Labio.

What epistemic assumptions framed eighteenth-century thinkers' speculations regarding origins? What, if anything, connected these speculations? The best way to understand the Enlightenment's obsession with origins is to study it in conjunction with the contemporary conceptualization of ori...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Descartes's Fabulous World
  • CHAPTER 2. Vico's Genetic Principle
  • CHAPTER 3. Origins Here and Now
  • CHAPTER 4. The Primitive Imagination
  • CHAPTER 5. Kant's Abyss: Serialization and Originality
  • Postscript
  • Works Cited
  • Index