Author: Law, Jules David
Title: The Rhetoric of Empiricism : Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. Richards
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xi,258 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: 'Beside the Design of Language': Molyneux's Question & the Empiricist Construction of Rhetoric; Locke's Grammar of Reflection; Toward the Surface & Back Again: Berkeley's Reflections on Language; Empiricist Aesthetics: Burke's 'Analogy' of the Senses; The 'Character' of Reflection:Hazlitt on Depth and Superficiality; Ruskin's 'Truth of Space': The Technique of Surface & the Ethics of Depth in 'Modern Painters'; Epilogue: From Ruskin to I.A. Richards: The End of Empiricism & the Beginning of Empiricist Literary Criticism; Appendix: Empiricism Among the Isms.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Literature, History, I.A. Richards, John Locke, Empiricist, Empiricism