Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 490 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 490 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
ISBN: 978-0-521-02143-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of dialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.
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Introduction: dialogue and Enlightenment; Part I. Strains of Enlightenment: 1. Shaftesbury's characteristic genres: concepts of criticism in the early eighteenth century; 2. Shaftesbury's The Moralists: a dialogue upon dialogue; 3. Berkeley and the paradoxes of empiricism: A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous; 4. Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Christian Cicero; 5. Hume and the end of religious dialogue: Dialogues concerning Natural Religion; Part II. Dialogue, aesthetics and the novel: 6. The Platonic revival: 1740-1770; 7. Anti-Platonism and the novelistic character; 8. Dead conversations: Richard Hurd's late poetics of dialogue; 9. Utopia or conversation: transforming dialogue in Johnson and Austen; Epilogue: some dialectics of Enlightenment.
