Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud

by Cathy Caruth

Book Overview

In the prevailing account of English empiricism, Locke conceived of self-understanding as a matter of mere observation, bound closely to the laws of physical perception. English Romantic poets and German critical philosophers challenged Locke's conception, arguing that it failed to account adequately for the power of thought to turn upon itself-to detach itself from the laws of the physical world. Cathy Caruth reinterprets questions at the heart of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801892694
• ISBN13: 9780801892691
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"