Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature / Edition 1

Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature / Edition 1

by Alexander Dick
ISBN-10:
1851969381
ISBN-13:
9781851969388
Pub. Date:
06/01/2008
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
1851969381
ISBN-13:
9781851969388
Pub. Date:
06/01/2008
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature / Edition 1

Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature / Edition 1

by Alexander Dick

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Overview

Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781851969388
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/01/2008
Series: The Body, Gender and Culture Series
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Alexander Dick, Christina Lupton

Table of Contents

Introduction, Christina Lupton, Alexander Dick; Chapter 1 Philosophy/Non-Philosophy and Derrida's (Non) Relations with Eighteenth-Century Empiricism, Nicholas Hudson; Chapter 2 Locke's Desire, Jonathan Brody Kramnick; Chapter 3 Philosophy and Politeness, Moral Autonomy and Malleability in Shaftesbury's Characteristics, Joseph Chaves; Chapter 4 Reid, Writing and the Mechanics of Common Sense, Alexander Dick; Chapter 5 Preposterous Hume, Mark Blackwell; Chapter 6 Aesthetic Sensibility and the Contours of Sympathy Through Hume's Insertions to the Treatise, Adam Budd; Chapter 7 David Hume and Jane Austen on Pride: Ethics in the Enlightenment, Eva M. Dadlez; Chapter 8 Hume, Religion, Literary Form: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, John Richetti; Chapter 9 The Epistemology of Genre, Jonathan Sadow; Chapter 10 The Primitive in Adam Smith's History, Maureen Harkin; Chapter 11 Can Julie Be Trusted? Rousseau and the Crisis of Constancy in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Nancy Yousef; Chapter 12 After the Summum Bonum: Novels, Treatises and the Enquiry After Happiness, Brian Michael Norton; Chapter 13 Music vs Conscience in Wordsworth's Poetry, Adam Potkay;
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