Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose / / Tim Milnes [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Milnes Tim
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 828/.709384
• Soggetto topico: English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Romanticism - Great Britain; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature; Apathy in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-271) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Romanticism's knowing ways -- From artistic to epistemic creation: the eighteenth century -- Charm of logic: Wordsworth's prose -- Dry romance: Hazlitt's immanent idealism -- Coleridge and the new foundationalism -- End of knowledge: Coleridge and theosophy -- Conclusion: life without knowledge.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Knowledge & Indifference in English Romantic Prose
• Titolo autorizzato: Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose
• ISBN: 1-107-13250-9; 0-521-03595-3; 1-280-16104-3; 1-139-14778-1; 0-511-12017-6; 0-511-05803-9; 0-511-33055-3; 0-511-48440-2; 0-511-07282-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450551503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; ; 55.