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Corrupting the fountains of knowledge: Language and error from Locke to Schlegel (John Locke, Germany, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis).

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Title/Author:	Corrupting the fountains of knowledge: Language and error from Locke to Schlegel (John Locke, Germany, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis)./
Author:	Sng, Zachary.
Description:	312 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4553.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-12A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3155684
ISBN:	9780496164905

Corrupting the fountains of knowledge: Language and error from Locke to Schlegel (John Locke, Germany, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis).
Sng, Zachary.

Corrupting the fountains of knowledge: Language and error from Locke to Schlegel (John Locke, Germany, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis). - 312 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4553.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2005.

This study investigates ways of thinking about language and the understanding in the long eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the role of errors, abuse, and breakdowns in the relationship between the two. I begin with a discussion of John Locke's pivotal role in the co-articulation of language and epistemology, and then move on to focus on the philosophical and literary texts of Germany from the period.

ISBN: 9780496164905Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Corrupting the fountains of knowledge: Language and error from Locke to Schlegel (John Locke, Germany, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis).
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520 $a To what extent can the abuses and imperfections of language be kept from corrupting the processes through which ideas originate in the mind? The texts that I examine offer different descriptions of the relationship between language and the ideas designated by words, and therefore different perspectives on the consequences of error and misuse. Central to my readings is the role these authors ascribe to tropes and figures. Although often identified as the source or a privileged manifestation of language's imperfection, tropes and figures are also posited as the key to describing language's relationship to the understanding. This results in a paradoxical situation, in which an element that is the condition of error or corruption also becomes the ground of knowledge. Consequently, there is a need to regulate this situation so that error either will not occur, or will cause minimal damage if it does occur. In my readings, I examine not only the mechanisms that control and regulate language, but also the ways in which they are simultaneously installed and undermined by the rhetorical strategies of these texts.
520 $a Beginning in the first chapter with Locke's treatise on the understanding and his views on language and money, I move on in the second chapter to consider Leibniz's reply to Locke and his remarks on the history of natural languages. The last two chapters treat the texts of Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis. Exploring not only their thematics but also their linguistic performance, I show how these texts try to conceive of language beyond its referential or communicative function, and examine the role error or corruption plays in them.
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