Scepticism at sea: Herman Melville and philosophical doubt

Scepticism at sea: Herman Melville and philosophical doubt

<p>This thesis explores Herman Melville’s relationship to sceptical philosophy. By reading Melville’s fictions of the 1840s and 1850s alongside the writings of Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, I seek to show that they manifest by turns expression, rebuttal, and mitigated acceptance of phil...

書誌詳細
主要な著者:	Evans, D, David Evans
その他の著者:	Marcus, L
フォーマット:	学位論文
言語:	English
出版事項:	2013
主題:	Metaphysics English Language and Literature Philosophy American literature in English Epistemology,causation,humankind Modern Western philosophy

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