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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... attempting to resolve it – insisting that , rather than being demonstrated , ' [ t ] he world is to be accepted ; as the ... attempt to circumvent what he saw as the incipient nihilism of Kantian rationalism by turning philosophy against ...
... attempting to resolve it – insisting that , rather than being demonstrated , ' [ t ] he world is to be accepted ; as the ... attempt to circumvent what he saw as the incipient nihilism of Kantian rationalism by turning philosophy against ...
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... attempts to repress . Instead , the first step towards coping with this problem ( rather than resolving it ) , is simply for literary criticism to give up its quest for indifference , just as philosophy is gradually giving up its quest ...
... attempts to repress . Instead , the first step towards coping with this problem ( rather than resolving it ) , is simply for literary criticism to give up its quest for indifference , just as philosophy is gradually giving up its quest ...
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... attempting to evade scepti- cism by making a ground of creation , and by founding knowledge itself in a reified ... attempt to place poetry in a reflexive relationship with philos- ophy in absolute knowing is just one side of a ...
... attempting to evade scepti- cism by making a ground of creation , and by founding knowledge itself in a reified ... attempt to place poetry in a reflexive relationship with philos- ophy in absolute knowing is just one side of a ...
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... attempts , unsuccessfully , to erase . Dewey , indeed , was sensitive to this thought when he wrote that ' Nature is characterized by a constant mixture of the precarious and the stable . This mixture gives poignancy to existence . If ...
... attempts , unsuccessfully , to erase . Dewey , indeed , was sensitive to this thought when he wrote that ' Nature is characterized by a constant mixture of the precarious and the stable . This mixture gives poignancy to existence . If ...
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... attempts to bring it to an end . Rorty himself notes that a completely ironic culture is ' probably ' impossible , since ' no project of self - creation through imposition of one's own idiosyncratic metaphoric , can avoid being marginal ...
... attempts to bring it to an end . Rorty himself notes that a completely ironic culture is ' probably ' impossible , since ' no project of self - creation through imposition of one's own idiosyncratic metaphoric , can avoid being marginal ...
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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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