Open Form and the Shape of Ideas: Literary Structures as Representations of Philosophical Concepts in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Portada
Bucknell University Press, 1986 - 140 pàgines
This study examines some of the ways in which discontinuous literary forms of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries serve as representations of philosophical ideas. The author provides a critique of Joseph Frank's "Spatial Form" and Umberto Eco's "Open Work" and then offers his own account of the theory of discontinuous form.
 

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The Nature and Interpretation of Open Forms
13
Open Work and Spatial Form
14
Visual Representation and the Interpretation of Open Forms
25
Notes
34
Knowledge Broken Bacons Novum Organum and Diderots De LInterprétation de la nature
38
Aphoristic Form and Knowledge Broken
39
Bacons Method and the Structure of Knowledge
43
Science en tâtonnant and the Search for General Explanations
48
The Art of Differentiation
71
Differentiation and Harmony
82
Differentiation Reason and the Sublime
89
Conclusion
95
Encyclopedic Form The Triumph of the Arbitrary
101
Buffon and the Imaginary Encyclopedia of Particulars
106
Ephraim Chambers and the Lockean Encyclopedia of Particulars
109
The Dialogue of the Encyclopedic
114

Notes
52
Perspectivism and Inclusionism The Case of the Quijote
55
Truth and Digression
56
Perspectivism
60
Inclusionism
64
Notes
67
Thomsons Seasons Fragments and Order
69
Notes
125
Afterword The Historical Question
127
Notes
132
Works Cited
133
Index
138
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