The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable

by Kevin Killeen

Book Overview

Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered only an incomplete reality.

Ranging from Paradise Lost to thinkers in and around the Royal Society and commentary on the Book of Job, The Unknowable in Early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503635392
• ISBN13: 9781503635395
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 6.3"