Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau

Romantic Souls, Realist Lives

AvS. Haines

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines presents a thought-provoking and theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy, arguing that the history of both can be seen as a struggle between two different conceptions of the self: the 'romantic' (or dualist) vs the 'realist' or ('extended').

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-11-23
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Upplaga:2005
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403944184

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Simon Haines is a member of the English Department in the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. He has also been a banker, a diplomat and an intelligence analyst. He is the author of Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self (Macmillan, 1997) and a number of articles on poetry (especially Romantic and post-Romantic), and the connections between poetry and philosophy (especially moral and political philosophy).

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'...this is a hugely impressive book - vast in scope and conception, powerful in execution and...meticulous in detail and reference.' - Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus of English, Glasgow University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Homer: Passion in the Iliad Sophocles' Antigone and Thucydides' Athens: Romanticism and Realism in Politics Plato and Aristotle: Concept and Passion The Inheritance of Augustine: Confessions Aquinas and the Realist Revival Dante and Medieval Romanticism Renaissance, Reformation and Shakespeare's Realism Romanticism from Descartes to Rousseau Notes Bibliography Index