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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _b;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 _c;BW/005692 _d;03/02/2020
082			_a828.8080 LEV
100			_aGeorge Lewis Levine
245			_aDying to know _b: scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England _c/George Lewis Levine
260			_aChicago _b : University of Chicago Press _c, ©2002.
300			_axi, 326 pages _c;24 cm.
365			_b6825
505			_aThe 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.
520			_aLevine 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.
650			_aLiterature
655			_a;English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
700			_aGeorge Lewis Levine
942			_cBOOK