Name: The Knowledge of Ignorance: From Genesis to Jules Verne (Cambridge Studies in French)
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Author: Andrew Martin
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The Knowledge of Ignorance: From Genesis to Jules Verne (Cambridge Studies in French)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Andrew Martin

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0521112486

ISBN13

9780521112482

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Synopsis "The Knowledge of Ignorance: From Genesis to Jules Verne (Cambridge Studies in French) "

This highly original study is concerned with the theory of knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring the recurrent paradox which equates pure ignorance with perfect knowledge, twin ideals free from the impurities and imperfections of discourse. The author combines the techniques of literary criticism and intellectual history in order to examine the literary, philosophical, theological, and political ramifications of this anxiety about, and ambition to transcend, the limits of the text. Dr Martin begins by tracing a network of interlocking motifs and images - beginning and end, nescience and omniscience, genesis and renascence, savagery and civilization - across a broad spectrum of texts from the Book of Genesis through the Renaissance (in particular the works of Nicholas of Cusa and Erasmus) to Rousseau. The central section of the book translates these temporal oppositions into the spatial antithesis of East and West in the Orientalism of Hugo, Napoleon and Chateaubriand. A final chapter draws together these apparently disparate themes in a consideration of the dichotomy of science and literature in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires.

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