The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern WitnessThere emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. |
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... economies enabling such dialogical feats of imagination, creating an interface between theories of language and cultural materialism (indeed, much like the generative and divergent nationalist traditions in Britain about which she ...
... economies, and in doing so implicitly models his critique on Michel F oucault's discussion of romance in The Order ... economics—instituted discourses which in turn mediated human understanding of the objects of its inquiry. They did so ...
... economies. In that respect, things are congealed experiences. Conventional wisdom has it that experience in and of the world, experience conceived as the direct contact with objects, fuels scientific discourse; our experience with ...
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Contents
Experience and the Allure of the Improbable | 1 |
STRUCTURE | 21 |
FEELING | 109 |
Notes | 199 |
225 | |
241 | |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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