Romantic Disillusionism and the Sceptical Tradition - Couverture rigide

Lessenich, Prof. Dr. Rolf P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3847106325 ISBN 13 : 9783847106326

Editeur : V&R unipress GmbH, 2017

Synopsis

Platonic Romanticism had a dark underside from its inception: Romantic Disillusionism, encompassing the Gothic and the new demonic doppelganger. The Classical Tradition’s conflict between Plato and Pyrrho, foundationalism and scepticism, optimism and pessimism was thus continued. Lord Byron’s was the most listened-to and echoed voice of Romantic Disillusionism in Europe, though by far not the only one. This comparative study of a multiplicity of sceptical English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Czech voices shows how traditional Pyrrhonic arguments were updated to suit the decades of the Romantic Movement, surviving as a subversive countercurrent to later Victorianism and resurging in the literature of the Decadence and Fin de Siècle.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Prof. Dr. Rolf P. Lessenich lehrte vor seiner Emeritierung am Institut fur Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Universitat Bonn. Er ist auch Romanist, Komparatist und Mitbegrunder des Bonner Centre for the Classical Tradition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: V&R unipress GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3847106325
• ISBN 13: 9783847106326
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 484
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible