Criteria of Certainty: Truth and Judgment in the English Enlightenment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813160269)

British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain. Critics and historians, Cope argues, have done an admirable job of describing the details of the intellectual movements of this period but they have failed to examine the intellectual, social, and psychological implications of ex

Author: Kevin L. Cope
ISBN-10: 081316026X
ISBN-13: 9780813160269
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d