Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy: Expressive Rationality in Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Theory

Swift, Simon

ISBN 10: 0826421318 / ISBN 13: 9780826421319

Edité par Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2009

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reprint edition. 192 pages. 9.21x5.98x0.55 inches. In Stock.

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• Titre: Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy: Expressive Rationality in Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Theory
• Éditeur: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0826421318
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780826421319
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Brand New
• Poids: 0,34 kilogramme

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Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy proposes a radical re-visioning of Romantic literature by developing a new insight into its philosophical importance. It challenges both a number of recent attacks on philosophical reason, and new historicist readings of Romanticism, by arguing that they fundamentally misinterpret what reason is in strikingly similar ways. Engaging with the philosophical, political and literary writings of Rousseau, Kant and Mary Wollstonecraft, and with the deconstruction of Paul de Man and Gayatri Spivak, it suggests that postmodernism's recent assault on Enlightenment universalism, and on aesthetic autonomy, in the name of particularity and heterogeneity underestimates the capacity of reason to orient itself towards forms of anthropological and literary difference.

À propos de l?auteur

Simon Swift is Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK.  He is the author of Hannah Arendt (Routledge, 2008)