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Article: Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2004
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Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England. By GEORGE LEVINE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xi+326 pp. $45; 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-47536-0.
An epigraph from Pater quoting Plato introduces George Levine's work on the story of epistemology in science and narrative: 'All who rightly touch philosophy, study nothing else than to die, and to be dead' (p. 1). From Descartes to Karl Pearson, moving between at least three disciplines over four centuries, a scholar of redoubtable learning attempts to trace the protean embodiment of what he argues is in essence a quest narrative, seeking truth at the cost ...
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