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'Peril in the means of its diffusion': William Godwin on Truth and Social Media

McCray, J. Louise

Journal of the history of ideas, 2020, Vol.81 (1), p.67-84 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: University of Pennsylvania Press

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'Peril in the means of its diffusion': William Godwin on Truth and Social Media
Autor: McCray, J. Louise
Assuntos: Ambiguity ; Ambivalence ; Anxiety ; Ascription ; British & Irish literature ; Conversation ; Dialogue ; Efficacy ; English literature ; Flexibility ; Friendship ; Godwin, William (1756-1836) ; History of medicine and histology ; Humans ; Knowledge ; Literary criticism ; Literary devices ; Literary influences ; Media ; Negotiation ; Plot (Narrative) ; Politics ; Preoccupation ; Radicalism ; Readers ; Reading ; Revolutions ; Romantic period ; Scrutiny ; Social justice ; Social media ; Social networks ; Speech ; Truth ; Unaccompanied ; Warnings
É parte de: Journal of the history of ideas, 2020, Vol.81 (1), p.67-84
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Descrição: In this article I explore how William Godwin depicted the social operation of media, and argue that his writing highlights a crosscurrent of alethic thought in Romantic-period Britain. I examine his direct assessments of the social merits of book-reading and conversation, revealing his ambivalence regarding sources of epistemic authority. I argue that he inherited this ambivalence from his Dissenting educational background, most especially the two-fold conception of truth that it negotiated. I thus situate Godwin's scrutiny of media in the alethic dialogue of his time, and offer this context as a helpful perspective upon his wider work.
Editor: United States: University of Pennsylvania Press
Idioma: Inglês

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'Peril in the means of its diffusion': William Godwin on Truth and Social Media

McCray, J. Louise

United States: University of Pennsylvania Press

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