Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680-1820 - 9780521767026
Un libro in lingua di robin Valenza edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2009
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The current divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and poets argued about whether their discourses should become more and more specialized, or whether they should aim to remain intelligible to the layperson. In this interdisciplinary study, Robin Valenza shows how Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth invented new intellectual languages. By offering a much-needed new account of the rise of the modern disciplines, Robin Valenza shows why the sciences and humanities diverged so strongly, and argues that literature has a special role in navigating between the languages of different areas of thought.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680-1820
- Lingua: English
- Autore: robin Valenza
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Gennaio '09
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : English poetry 18th century History and criticism Literature and science Great Britain History 18th century Language and culture Great Britain History 18th century
- Pagine: 239
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0521767024
- EAN-13: 9780521767026