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...Peter Howell The College of William & Mary 2004 Godwin, Contractarianism, and the Political Dead End of Empiricism Peter Howell St.Mary’s College, University of Surrey At one point near...

...Matthew J. Rigilano R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8794033 Copyright 2021 by Matthew J. Rigilano 1 3 3 Novel Empiricisms Matthew J. Rigilano Pennsylvania State University, Abington Roger Maioli. Empiricism and the Early Theory...

... (1712)—now recast as the beauti- ful, novel, and strange—and firmly rejects the orthodox notion of ideal beauty associated with Shaftesbury and the academic tradition.5 Paulson’s interpretive method is most valuable for those working within the iconoclastic framework of empiricism, it strikes...

... values, Valihora describes how the aesthetic emerged in response to particular developments within empiricism. She reconstitutes sympathetically the justifications that gave rise to the aesthetic project in the first place and reminds us what it was that this project ideally hoped to achieve...

... for those phenomena not immediately accounted for in British empiricism’s assertion that all knowledge comes from the senses, so that the imagination was a faculty posited as the means of associating ideas, or as a method of organizing and, therefore, creating comprehen...

... or reason, then it has become something else, a seme, a portent, an algebraic symbol, and not, as Emily Brady briefly suggests, a mystery. In the history of empiricism, this was a matter hotly debated, with followers of Locke and Hobbes on one side, and the associationists, such as Hume, Hartley...

.... Molesworth begins by recalling the standard story of the “rise of the novel” as a rejection of romance, with its ghosts, goblins, and gods from machines, in favor of more “realistic” accounts of the world: stories inflected by new notions of empiricism and probability. But, he asks, is it really likely...

..., as a progressive narrative of internalization, Jager—as the introduction and chapter 1 boldly argue—says that seculariza- tion results from a far more interesting and uneasy division of bivalent discur- sive practices: empiricism vs. teleology, skeptical inquiry vs. a commitment to God’s intentional design...

... that is more metaphysical than metaphorical, and that marks a distinct shift in literary representation from the age of Milton to that of Defoe. [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Daniel Defoe Roxana Devil novel genre empiricism religion secularity...

... of the Ovidian elegy, Gentil-­Bernard reanimates his source text by infusing his Art of Love with a sensuous empiricism that renders the experience of pleasure as a philo- sophical position in itself. We are traveling here far beyond hedonism and well 108 Eighteenth-Century Life into Epicureanism...

... metaphor and empiricism, Silver concentrates on the material and theoretical problems of filling the sheet for empirical thinkers like Locke and Sterne. What is additionally fascinating about the coinciding publication of these books is that, despite their different objects of inquiry...

... influence extending well into the second half of the eighteenth century.11 He is now best remembered in costarring roles, opposite John Locke as the author of Cursory Reflections upon a Book called An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690), the first printed critique of Lockean empiricism...

.... Seriman also looks to Mauper- tuis21 for Henry’s endorsement of empiricism, as the castaways observe, measure, and document the natural environment of littoral Terra Australis Incognita. More relevant to Seriman’s interests, however, is a debate in the 1740s...

... of Jonathan Lamb, the commitment to empiricism and direct observation of the “unorderable mass of things” recorded in voyage narra- tives signals the failure, not the success, of the assimilation of detail into coherent providential, enlightened, historiographical...

... to answer” (P 24). In this exchange, White reveals not only his dispositional empiricism and restraint, but also his ability to con- sider the problems of geographical history on a global scale. Recent studies of eighteenth-century natural history have been partic- ularly attentive to its role...

... Understanding (1696), Locke illustrates the basis of empiricism by elucidating how the human mind reacts to external stimuli: “Understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut off from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without.” 14...

... Received      113 Hammond, Brean. Jonathan Swift (Dublin: Irish Academic, 2010). Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Times, series ed., Stan Smith. Pp. xvii + 214. $32.95 paper Hanson, Craig Ashley. The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism...

...” (History, 96). I take the term naïve empiricism from McKeon, who uses it to describe an early phase of the experimental program (Origins, especially 25 – ​118). 26. Lamb, “Minute Particulars and the Representation of South Pacific Discovery,” Eighteenth-­Century Studies 28 (1995): 281 – ​94...

..., and knowledge as growing from our individual experience of specific times and places, rather than from authorities or abstract principles derived a priori. Although Watt does not explicitly claim that Defoe could not have written without Locke, by implying that literary realism and empiricism are linked, he...

... that even as Enlightenment spaces exemplified the modes of progress, empiricism, humanism, and secularism that we conventionally associate with enlightened modernity, they were rarely singular or fixed, nor can they be reliably understood in exclusively progressivist terms. Instead—like the battlefield...