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Middling Romanticism

Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery

By: Zachary Sng

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Middling Romanticism

Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery

By: Zachary Sng

Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that Romanticism dislodges such terms as medium, moderation, and mediation from serving as mere self-evident tools that conduct from one pole to another. Instead, they offer a dwelling in and with the middle: an attention to intervals, interstices, and gaps that make these terms central to modern understandings of relation.

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Fordham University Press

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0823288439

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9780823288434

The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist

By: Zachary Sng

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The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist

By: Zachary Sng

Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding as his point of departure, Sng examines a number of such debates, focusing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, he takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, Sng elucidates how people wrote about error and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge. The range of authors addressed—Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe—demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity underlying the textual production of the age.

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Stanford University Press

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0804775095

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9780804775090

Information Ages

Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

By: Michael E. Hobart,Zachary S. Schiffman

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Information Ages

Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

By: Michael E. Hobart,Zachary S. Schiffman

A grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The late twentieth century is trumpeted as the Information Age by pundits and politicians alike, and on the face of it, the claim requires no justification. But in Information Ages, Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman challenge this widespread assumption. In a sweeping and captivating history of information technology from the ancient Sumerians to the world of Alan Turing and John von Neumann, the authors show how revolutions in the technology of information storage—from the invention of writing approximately 5,000 years ago to the mathematical models for describing physical reality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the introduction of computers—profoundly transformed ways of thinking.

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JHU Press

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0801864127

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9780801864124

The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist

By: Zachary Sng

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0804770174

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