A Philosophy of the Essay : Scepticism, Experience, and Style
- Submitting institution
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University of Hertfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 16229811
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350049987
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 190-page monograph argues for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that essays have a distinctive epistemology and ethics oriented toward living in contingency. The book speaks across both disciplinary divides and the analytic-continental divide within philosophy. By focusing on the form of philosophical texts and the ‘persistently overlooked’ legacy of philosophical essayism, it creates connections between apparently disparate philosophers from the 16th to the 21st century and ‘sheds new light on key issues in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics in both the analytical and European traditions’.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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