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ISBN/UID: 9780226475363
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Vict...
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320 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226475363
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Vict...