Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic ProseCambridge University Press, 27.02.2003 г. - 278 страници This 2003 study sheds light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge, particularly as they inherited them from the philosopher David Hume. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth century to answer empirical scepticism had produced a culture of 'indifferentism'. Tim Milnes explores the way in which Romantic writers extended this epistemic indifference through their resistance to argumentation, and finds that it exists in a perpetual state of tension with a compulsion to know. This tension is most clearly evident in the prose writing of the period, in works such as Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Hazlitt's Essay on the Principles of Human Action and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation between knowledge and indifference that the Romantics prefigure the ambivalent negotiations of modern post-analytic philosophy. |
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... empirical scepticism had produced a culture of ' indifferentism ' . Tim Milnes explores the way in which Romantic writers extended this epistemic indifference through their resistance to argumentation , and finds that it exists in a ...
... empirical scepticism had produced a culture of ' indifferentism ' . Tim Milnes explores the way in which Romantic writers extended this epistemic indifference through their resistance to argumentation , and finds that it exists in a ...
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... empirical propositions : " Truth or falsehood , ' he asserts , ' consists in an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas , or to real existence and matter of fact . Whatever , therefore , is not susceptible of ...
... empirical propositions : " Truth or falsehood , ' he asserts , ' consists in an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas , or to real existence and matter of fact . Whatever , therefore , is not susceptible of ...
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... empirical truth to which new creations were either subject or ( more rarely ) miraculous exceptions . Alexander Gerard's Essay on Genius , for instance , though out- wardly an apology for the creative imagination , insists ' that a man ...
... empirical truth to which new creations were either subject or ( more rarely ) miraculous exceptions . Alexander Gerard's Essay on Genius , for instance , though out- wardly an apology for the creative imagination , insists ' that a man ...
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... . Unlike the American pragmatists a century later , the English Romantics did not always use the notion of creation to sever ties with empirical foundationalism . Indeed , more frequently they Romanticism's knowing ways 9.
... . Unlike the American pragmatists a century later , the English Romantics did not always use the notion of creation to sever ties with empirical foundationalism . Indeed , more frequently they Romanticism's knowing ways 9.
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Tim Milnes. ties with empirical foundationalism . Indeed , more frequently they at- tempted instead to make a foundation of it . James was able to assert with confidence that ' [ i ] n our cognitive as well as in our active life we are ...
Tim Milnes. ties with empirical foundationalism . Indeed , more frequently they at- tempted instead to make a foundation of it . James was able to assert with confidence that ' [ i ] n our cognitive as well as in our active life we are ...
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the eighteenth century | 25 |
Wordsworths prose | 71 |
Hazlitts immanent idealism | 105 |
4 Coleridge and the new foundationalism | 144 |
Coleridge and theosophy | 176 |
life without knowledge | 209 |
Notes | 216 |
Bibliography | 254 |
Index | 272 |
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