Science and the Literary Imagination: Voltaire and Goethe

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THIS ESSAY WAS COMMISSIONED in the later 19608 by a letter from Anthony Thorlby, one of the editors of the collection Literature and Western Civilization cited in the note below. The other, and I gathered senior, editor was David Daiches. I no longer have the file of correspondence, but recall that one or both of them had come upon The Edge of Objectivity (1960) and had liked the chapter on Science and the Enlightenment. The essay that follows is an enlargement on the treatment of Voltaire and Goethe, two of the three principal writers-the ...

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