Corrupting the fountains of knowledge -- Linguistic turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge -- Kant and the error of subreption -- The madness of the middle -- "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons -- Conclusion: a dirty word.
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The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist.
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Rhetoric of error from Locke to Kleist.
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Error.
Knowledge, Theory of-- Europe-- History-- 18th century.