Literature Language and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain 1680 1820 1st Edition by Robin Valenza ISBN 978-0521767026 0521767024

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ISBN 10:   0521767024

ISBN 13: 978-0521767026

Author: Robin Valenza 

The divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and poets argued about whether their discourses should become more and more specialised, or whether they should aim to remain intelligible to the layperson. In this interdisciplinary study, Robin Valenza shows how Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth invented new intellectual languages. By offering a much-needed account of the rise of the modern disciplines, Robin Valenza shows why the sciences and humanities diverged so strongly, and argues that literature has a special role in navigating between the languages of different areas of thought.

Table of contents: 

I The Economies of Knowledge

2 The Learned and Conversable Worlds

3 Physics and its Audiences

4 Philosophy’s Place Between Science and Literature

5 Poetry Among the Intellectual Disciplines

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