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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... creation is that the price of thus emulating God is to be cast out of an Eden of certainty . What is gained is a sense of freedom and of truth as self - created , but also , and consequently , of truth as fallible , inde- terminate ...
... creation is that the price of thus emulating God is to be cast out of an Eden of certainty . What is gained is a sense of freedom and of truth as self - created , but also , and consequently , of truth as fallible , inde- terminate ...
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... creation for its own sake.44 But this is only half the story . Dewey's charge may , for instance , be true of Keats's notion of negative capability or Lamb's avowed preference for suggestion over comprehension . But when one considers ...
... creation for its own sake.44 But this is only half the story . Dewey's charge may , for instance , be true of Keats's notion of negative capability or Lamb's avowed preference for suggestion over comprehension . But when one considers ...
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... creation or figuration , though more explicit , is the same . Thus , after the Biographia's failed attempt to prepare ' a total and undivided philosophy ' , which incorporated the dynamic powers of art and religion , Coleridge turned to ...
... creation or figuration , though more explicit , is the same . Thus , after the Biographia's failed attempt to prepare ' a total and undivided philosophy ' , which incorporated the dynamic powers of art and religion , Coleridge turned to ...
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... creation of the domain of the aesthetic as ' literary absolute ' - comparable , that is , in that it is every bit as ambiva- lent and hesitant as its German cousin in its displacement of apparently intractable epistemological problems ...
... creation of the domain of the aesthetic as ' literary absolute ' - comparable , that is , in that it is every bit as ambiva- lent and hesitant as its German cousin in its displacement of apparently intractable epistemological problems ...
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... creation , and by founding knowledge itself in a reified foundationlessness . On a more general level then , while Coleridge was convinced that the contemplative life needed to be reconciled with the active , he remained undecided as to ...
... creation , and by founding knowledge itself in a reified foundationlessness . On a more general level then , while Coleridge was convinced that the contemplative life needed to be reconciled with the active , he remained undecided as to ...
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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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