Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism

Name: Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism
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ISBN: 9780804718332

ISBN-10: 0804718334

ISBN-13: 9780804718332

Edition: 1990

Authors: Mark A. Wollaeger

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"You want more scepticism at the very foundation of your work. Scepticism, the tonic of minds, the tonic of life, the agent of truth - the way of art and salvation." Joseph Conrad wrote these words to John Galsworthy in 1901, and this study argues that Conrad's skepticism forms the basis of his most important works, participating in a tradition of philosophical skepticism that extends from Descartes to the present. Conrad's epistemological and moral skepticism - expressed, forestalled, mitigated, and suppressed - provides the terms for the author's rethinking of the peculiar relation between philosophy and literary form in Conrad's writing and, more broadly, for reconsidering what it means…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English