Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy
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- ISBN 9780826486448
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy proposes a radical revisioning 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 Mark Wollstonecraft, and with the deconstruction of Paul de Man and Gayatri Spivak, it suggests that postmodernism's recent assault on Enlightement 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 defence. Simon Swift is Lecturer in Critical and Culural Theory at the School of English, University of Leeds.
Simon Swift is Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory at the School of English, University of Leeds.
