01858nam a22002297a 4500 56392 56392 20200316112512.0 200210b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780226475363 Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 ;BW/005692 ;03/02/2020 828.8080 LEV George Lewis Levine Dying to know : scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England /George Lewis Levine Chicago : University of Chicago Press , ©2002. xi, 326 pages ;24 cm. 6825 The narrative of scientific epistemology -- Dying to know Descartes -- Carlyle, Descartes, and objectivity : lessen thy denominator -- Autobiography as epistemology : the effacement of self -- My life as a machine : Francis Galton, with some reflections on A.R. Wallace -- Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography -- The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend -- Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology -- The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed -- Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science -- The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater. Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Victorians, he argues, were dying to know in the sense that they could imagine achieving pure knowledge only in a condition where the body ceases to make its claims: to achieve enlightenment, virtue, and salvation, one must die. Literature ;English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. George Lewis Levine BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2020-02-10 Brijwasi Book Distributors 6825.00 0 828.8080 LEV 27369 2020-02-10 00:00:00 2020-02-10 BOOK