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Article: The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. Richards.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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This book is "an attempt to trace the consequences for literary theory of taking a classical empiricist stance." It moves from Locke and Berkeley, through Burke and Hazlitt, to Ruskin, "gradually away from 'philosophy' and toward 'literary' and 'art' criticism" (p. ix). The book contains an introductory chapter, chapters on each of these five figures, an epilogue on Richards, and an appendix which attempts to distinguish empiricism from other doctrines and movements.
The author takes empiricism to be "accused of privileging the visual over the discursive, the literal over the rhetorical, the static over the temporal, and totalizing explanations over dialectical ...
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... ... tolerance and humanity. Berkeley retired to Oxford University ... had been prepared for Berkeley by John Locke. In a broad sense empiricism ... experience. According to Locke, all knowledge is derived ... well as concepts, led Berkeley to original psychological ...
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