Knowledge and indifference in English Romantic prose / Tim Milnes.

This ambitious study sheds new light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation between knowledge and indifference that the Romantics prefigure the ambivalent negotiations of modern post-analytic philosophy.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Milnes, Tim
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 55.
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Table of Contents:
  • Romanticism's knowing ways
  • From artistic to epistemic creation: the eighteenth century
  • Charm of logic: Wordsworth's prose
  • Dry romance: Hazlitt's immanent idealism
  • Coleridge and the new foundationalism
  • End of knowledge: Coleridge and theosophy
  • Conclusion: life without knowledge.