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The Powers of Distance

- Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment

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Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with theoretical argument, this title examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. It explores a range of practices in nineteenth-century British culture, including methods of objectivity in social science.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780691074979
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 208
  • Udgivet:
  • 19. august 2001
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x235x12 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 312 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 9. december 2024

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Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with theoretical argument, this title examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. It explores a range of practices in nineteenth-century British culture, including methods of objectivity in social science.

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