The rhetoric of error from Locke to Kleist - Sng, Zachary (Stanford University Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Corrupting the fountains of knowledge -- Linguistic turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge -- Kant and the error of subreption -- The madness of the middle -- "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons -- Conclusion: a dirty word
The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist