At Zero Point: Discourse, Culture, and Satire in Restoration England - Couverture rigide

Zimbardo, Rose A

 
9780813120393: At Zero Point: Discourse, Culture, and Satire in Restoration England

Synopsis

" At Zero Point presents an entirely new way of looking at Restoration culture, discourse, and satire. The book locates a rupture in English culture and epistemology not at the end of the eighteenth century (when it occurred in France) but at the end of the seventeenth century. Rose Zimbardo's hypothesis is based on Hans Blumenberg's concept of "zero point"-the moment when an epistemology collapses under the weight of questions it has itself raised and simultaneously a new epistemology begins to

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À propos de l'auteur

Rose A. Zimbardo is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita whose previous books include A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics, 1660-1732.

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