The Characteristic Theology of Hermann Melville: Aesthetics, Politics, Duplicity. By Bradley A. Johnson
To begin to understand Bradley Johnson’s dense, delirious, and remarkable book, one must first tell a story. In the Lockean and Leibnizian philosophical traditions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the task of the philosopher (or indeed anyone whose concern was to know) was to analyse ide...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 110-113 |
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| Summary: | To begin to understand Bradley Johnson’s dense, delirious, and remarkable book, one must first tell a story. In the Lockean and Leibnizian philosophical traditions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the task of the philosopher (or indeed anyone whose concern was to know) was to analyse ideas, objects, and substances until one managed to identify and determine the characteristic marks that define them. Knowing becomes a process of characterisation and the ars characteristica (a language composed of such essential marks) becomes the ideal of science. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frt024 |