Kenneth Craven

Gebundenes Buch

Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness

The Information Age in Swift's a Tale of a Tub

Beschreibung

This provocative new view of intellectual history probes the scientific millenarian myth directing twentieth-century learning. Craven's interdisciplinary findings reveal Swift's dismembering of the consolidated legacy of Paracelsus, Bacon, Milton, Newton, Locke, Toland, and Shaftesbury.

Autor

Kenneth Craven, Ph.D. in comparative literature (English and Russian), Columbia University, has served on the faculty of the City College of New York, practiced psychotherapy, and worked as management consultant for A.T. & T., IBM, and the Xerox Corporation. His landmark study for the National Science Foundation and the Modern Language Association defined the information cycle and prescribed the first doctoral programs in information and computer sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill / Brill NV
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1992
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1g
• ISBN-13: 9789004095243
• ISBN-10: 9004095241
• Artikelnr.: 46006774