John Ruskin: conservative attitudes to the modern 1836-1860

I examine the way in which, in his work of the 1840s, Ruskin uses methods and assumptions derived from eighteenth-century Materialist, Mechanist and Vitalist Natural Philosophy, especially his assertion that the meanings which he reads into natural phenomena are objectively present and can be quanti...

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Main Author:	Michael A. Williams
Format:	Default Thesis
Published:	1997
Subjects:	Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified Quantification Adaptation Association Infinity Materialism Mechanism Vitalism Utility Memory Obedience Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/17367
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