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OverviewWhat epistemic assumptions framed eighteenth-century thinkers' speculations regarding origins? What, if anything, connected these speculations? The best way to understand the Enlightenment's obsession with origins is to study it in conjunction with the contemporary conceptualization of originality as a criterion of aesthetic value, Catherine Labio maintains. Her expansive survey of the era's thought places special emphasis on epistemology and is genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing on such fields as anthropology, geometry, historiography, literary criticism, and political economy. One of the most striking facets of Enlightenment thought, according to Labio, is the emergence of aesthetics as a master discourse that enabled its users to make sense of worlds ostensibly unrelated to the arts. In particular, once knowledge became defined as knowledge of things made by human beings, originality became valued not only for its novelty but also as a guarantee of epistemological certainty.Labio analyzes the views held by a variety of European thinkers-including Baumgarten, Condillac, Descartes, Kant, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Vico, and Edward Young-on the origins of ideas, languages, nations, nature, and wealth. Throughout, the author deals with a wide range of primary and secondary materials. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine LabioPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801442759ISBN 10: 0801442753 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 06 October 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsIn a mature, far-reaching book, Catherine Labio explores the complexity and variety of early modern theories of origins, originality, and authorship, from Descartes and Vico to Kant. With erudition, attentiveness to philosophical arguments, and an evenhanded approach to earlier scholarship, she analyzes the profound tensions within the framework of the 'esprit syst matique, ' central to the Enlightenment project, between epistemological models based on simultaneity and synchrony and those based on linearity or successivity. -Julie Candler Hayes, author of Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion Author InformationCatherine Labio is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Yale University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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